
THE FALL OF BABYLON, 



THE LOUD CRY. 



H. WREH, A. M. 



''And after these things 1 saw another angel come down from heaven, having great 
power, and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily, with a strong 
voice, saying, 'Babylon, the great, is fallen, is fallen ;' and is become the habitation of dev- 
ils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. And 
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 'Come out of her, my people, that ye be not 
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached 
unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.' "— Eev. 18, 1—5. 



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Part First. 



THE FALL OF BABYLON. 
"And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great 
power, and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily, with a strong 
voice, saying, 'Babylon, the great, is fallen, is fallen ;' and is become the habitation of dev- 
ils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. And 
I heard another voice from heaven , saying, 'Come out of her, my people, that ye be not 
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached 
unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.' "— Kev. 18, 1—5. 

This tract is an old fashioned believer in the Bible. It is addressed to 
those who fear the God therein revealed, and think its sayings worthy to be 
kept. It undertakes to break new ground in the field covered by the pages of 
the Sacred Book. 

It will attempt an exposition of the eighteenth chapter of Revelation. 
This will involve a review of the entire work of God, and history of the 
world, from a new stand-point, as the light which the mighty angel there de- 
scribed sheds over the world is but the sum of all the rays of light which, from 
age to age, have fallen upon men; while the sins there attributed to Babylon 
are but the sins of all the ages past reduced into a living mass of existing evil. 
The sins of this Babylon are the last great cloud to darken the skies of earth, 
while the light of that angel is a burst of the sun of divine Revelation, full- 
orbed, upon a fallen world, a* that sun sets to rise no more. 

That the work of this angel is the closing work of the Gospel dispensa- 
tion, and that the time for it has fully come, will be amply proven, on the pa- 
ges of this tract to those who have a knowledge of the great system of proph- 
esy, as spread out on the pages of the Bible. To those who are not familiar 
with this portion of Scripture, we wish to say, that we have made many 
statements which we have not undertaken to prove— since our object is not so 
much to write an exposition of prophesy as to call your attention to expositions 
that have already been made and placed before the world. By these state- 
ments we desire to stir you up to an investigation of the truthfulness of our as- 
sertions, believing that such an inquiry will lead you to see the matter in the 
same light. There is not a statement in the tract but we hold ourselves ready 
to make good, upon evidence which must elicit the confidence of the candid. 
But if our statements are not true, any of the ministry of our day can show 
them to be wrong, or erroneous. So that the inquiry we desire you to make in 
the premises can only result in an increase of knowledge, one way or the other. 
And therefore, we earnestly invite your attention to the matters brought for- 
ward by these pages We are now ready to take up our subject, and we first 
invite your attention to the 

THE MIGHTY ANGEL. 

John saw coining down from heaven, and whose glory, he declares, enlight- 
ened the earth. What is this angel'? Is it a literal angel? Oris it a man, 
or a body of men, symbolized by an angel? We think it is the latter. It ap- 
pears to us to be the ministry of the church, at the time referred to. But does 
some one ask — "did not a literal angel warn Abraham of the impending fate 



of Sodom? Did not literal angels summon Lot to make haste and escape for 
his life? Did not literal angels sing "glory to God in the highest" to the Shep- 
herds at our Savior's birth? And are not all the literal "angels ministering 
spirits sent sent forth to minister to those who shall be the heirs.of Salvation?" 
And may not this be a literal angel? 

We acknowledge that we are happy to believe that all the above and much 
more is true of the literal angels v For, without the assistance of the literal 
angels, we fear that the service of the symbolic angels would not come to 
much. Still, we think, this angel is symbolic. We think there are two tests 
that will solve the question, in every case, whether a given angel is to be re- 
garded as literal, or symbolic. It is to be regarded as symbolic. First, when 
it is doing a work in reference to the general mass of mankind, or in behalf of 
the general body of God's people. Second, when that work is evident by a 
proclamation of the Gospel. These tests are in the case of the angels of the 
seven churches of Rev. 2 and 3, and in the case of the three angels of Rev. 14: 
6 — 12. These all are, therefore, evidently, symbolic angels, or the ministers 
of Christ, represented by that name. Still more obviously, if possible, do both 
these tests meet in our angel of Rev. 18. His work relates to the mass of God's 
people and also to the world. And it is manifestly a proclamation of the Gospel 
for it exposes, by its light, the sins that are. current in its day, and throws its 
radiance over the pathway of the children of God. as they retire from Baby- 
lon. Having thus introduced "the hero of our story," .we now venture to as- 
sert, that, the work attributed to him, in the chapter we are considering, 

HAS NOT YET BEEN DONE. 

We believe this for the following reasons : First. No one has ever 
claimed to be doing it. Neither Luther, Calvin, Wesley, nor any other of the 
great lights of modern times, set up the claim that he was doing this work. 
But, if it had been done by any of them, they would have known it. For 
while it is true that wicked men and nations fulfill the word of God without 
knowing it, this is not the case with God's people. Whenever men are raised 
up by God among his people to do a work that had been foretold in the Bible. 
those men know that they are fulfilling prophesy. And they know the very 
prophesy which is being wrought out through them. John, the Haptist. knew 
that he was the one foretold by Tsaiah, as "crying in the wilderness, pit-pare ye 
the way of the Lord. ' The great reformers knew that they wen- raised up to 
break the dominion of the papacy over the consciences of men. as had been 
foretold would be done. The leaders in the great Advent movrnnnts of the 
present century knew that they were proclaiming the messages described ;,s 
being given by three angels in Rev. 14: 6 \2. New this work of the angel of 
Rev. 18. is a specific work among (iod's people and in their behalf. Heme ii 
it ever had been done, his servants who did it would have known it. and left 
the mark and record of their work in the world. 1 at tlieie is no people who 
trace their origin to the fulfillment of this prophesy, nor any record to show 
that anybody ever claimed to be engaged in the work here described. We- 
conclude, therefore, that it has not been done. As a further proof that this an- 
gel has not yet done his work we mention, 

Seiond. Babylon. Ma (lever, been in the condition. scribed to her by this 

angel until now. A ml t herefore this work could not have been done hereto- 
fore. 'I he truth of this will become more and more apparent as we proceed 
with thfl subject. As a final reason for insisting that this work is not yet ac- 
complished, we mention. Third. That, if it had been ('one the world would 



have ended ere this; Because the pouring- out of the "plagues, '' the overthrow 
of Bab-ylon, and the destruction of the world immediately follow it. Read the 
entire chapter, and the remainder of the book of Revelation, and see if this is 
not the case. But, if we understand the situation, the plagues are not yet 
poured out, Babylon is not yet overthrown, and the wicked are not yet de- 
stroyed. Hence, again, we conclude that the work of this angel is not yet 
done. But we are prepared to lay down the proposition that 

IT TS NOW DUE. 

The time has come for its glory to lighten the earth. The evidence in 
proof of this is found in fact, as can be easily proven, though we do not here 
try toprov^ it—that nearly every event foretold in the Bible to precede the end 
of the world and the Day of God's Wrath, except this angel work, and the 
events to arise out of,, and in connection with it, has taken place, and is now 
in the past. The rise and fall of mighty kingdoms in past ages; the character 
and origin of the political powers now upon the scene of action; the appear- 
ance of great ecclesiastical bodies and the work they would do in this and past 
ages; the development of the great schemes of Satan, from age to age, and 
their culmination at this time, by which he would subvert or overthrow the 
work of God in the earth ; the steady and onward march of the work of Christ 
towards its final and triumphant conclusion, all show that time can last but lit- 
tle longer, and set us on the alert for any tokens there may be of the approach 
of that angel which is to lend the lustre of his glory to the earth for a brief 
space at the close of its history. 

In special confirmation of our belief that the hour this angel's work has 
come, we mention one fact : It has already been shown, that the work of this 
angel immediately precedes the falling of the last plagues, and the end of the 
world. By reading what is said of the "Third Angel," and the events directly 
following it, as shown in the latter part of Rev. 14, it will be alsG seen, that 
the coming of the Lord in the clouds of heaven and the end of the world im- 
mediately follow the work of that angel. Hence — as God does not' have two 
special forms of Gospel work going on at the same time, we conclude, that the 
•'Third Angel' 1 of Rev. 14, and the angel of Rev. 18, are the same, and repre- 
sent the same work substantially. The angel of Rev. 18, doubtless has a spe- 
cial work of its own, in the doing of which it absorbs and continues the work 
of the. "Third -Anger,' of Rev. 14. And quickly gathers the people of God into 
one body, prepares them for translation and brings to a glorious issue the mili- 
tant history of the church of Jesus Christ. The significant fact, that we. now 
state is: That the work of the" 'Third -Angel''" of Rev. 14, has been going on 
in the earth for over forty years. lf~any candid person should doubt this, let 
him call and get the proof. It is ready and ample. It must be, therefore, that 
the stage of the work described in Rev. 14, is far advanced. Whenever that 
angel begirts the earth with his work, the time will be arrived for the opening 
of Rev. 18. But the "Third Angel," at this day, encircles the earth. The hour 
for the "mighty Angel'' of Rev. 18, is. therefore, at hand. If the above views 
are. correct, and we. are sure. they are — The Seventh Day Advrntists have given 
the message of Rev. 14, referred to above, and the work of the angel of. Rev. 
18, must be expected to arise among that people. It is now a matter of inter- 
est to inquire, w 

WHAT IS BABYLON? 

And where. shall we look to find it? It is not necessary to say that it is 
not literal Babylon, oj?; the ancient city of Asia, once bearing that name. She 



is no more. Her pride and sins brought her downfall long ago. The Babylon 
of which we are now speaking must be some other. We have seen that the 
angel of whose work we are writing was a symbolic angel. It is not unlikely 
then, that this is a symbolic Babylon. We believe it is. There evidently are 
several Babylons mentioned in the Bible. But there never has been but one 
actual, or literal, Babylon. The first, or literal, Babylon was the product, in 
the first instance, and afterward, the chief stay and propagator of idolatry, or 
the first great apostasy of men from God. Ancient Babylon was the centre and 
glory of Paganism. Now, how reasonable— if there should be a second great 
apostasy, even if it differed materially, from the first, it would be to call it by 
the same name. And this is just what is done in the book of Revelation. The 
second apostasy is the apostasy of the Christian world from revealed and re- 
stored truth, just as the first or pagan apostasy was from the original truth 
given man at his creation. The entire Christian world, in so far as it is, ever 
has been, or will be. apostate, is included in the various instances in which 
Babylon is referred to in the book of Revelation. Before this tract is finished, 
we shall place before you the most conclusive proof that, not only the church 
of Rome, the Greek Church of Russia, and other State Churches, are in a state 
of apostasy, but that this is also the condition of all the great Protestant bod j 
ies of our day. But we wish to state our belief, here, that while this Babylon 
of Rev. 18 takes in the entire Christian world, almost, it is our Protestant 
churches that are chiefly meant. This will appear when we observe the fact, 
that this Babylon is not declared fallen until just before the end of the world. 
It must therefore chiefly embrace that part of the Christian world which apos- 
tatizes near the close of time. We, therefore, conclude tha^ this is not an- 
cient, and literal, but modern, and symbolic Babylon, or the Christian world of 
our day. We now propose to bring forward proof that every candid man will 
recognize as conclusive, that, 

BABYLON IS F ALT-EN. 

We spread before you what one of the ablest and most eloquent bishops 
of the M. E. Church says of his own denomination. Here is his language : 
'•The Church of God is to-day courting the world. Its members are trying to 
bring it down to the level of the ungodly. The ball, the theatre, nude and 
lewd art, social luxuries, with all their loose immoralities, are making inroads 
into the sacred inclosnre of the Church. And as a satisfaction for all this 
worldliness. Christians are making a great deal of Lent and Easter and Good 
Friday, and church ornamentation. It is the old trick of Satan. The Jewish 
Church struck on that rock. The Romish Church was wrecked on the tame. 
And the Protestant Church is fast reaching the same doom. 

Our great dangers, us we see them, are. assimilation to the world, neglect 
of the poor, substitution of the form for the fact of Godliness, abandonment 
of discipline, a hireling ministry, an impure gospel; which, summed up. is a 
fashionable church. That Methodists should be liable to such an outcome, and 
that there should be signs of it in a hundred years from the sail-loft, seems al- 
most the miracle of history. But who that looks about him to-day can fail to 
see the fact. 

Do not Methodists, in violation of God's word and their own discipline 
dress as extravagantly and aw fashionably as any other class? Do no! the la- 
dies, and often the wives and daughters of the ministry, put on gold and 
pearls, and costly array? Would not the plain dress insisted on by John Wes- 
ley, Bishop Aslmry, and worn by Hester Ann Rogers, lady Huntington, and 



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others equally distinguished, be now regarded in Methodist circles as fanati- 
cism ? Can any one. going into a Methodist Church in any of our chief cities, 
distinguish the attire of the communicants from that of the theatre and ball 
goers ? 

Is not worldliness seen in the music? Elaborately dressed and ornament- 
ed choirs, who in many cases make no profession of religion, and are often 
sneering skeptics, go through a cold, artistic, or operatic performance, which 
is as much in harmony with spiritual worship as an opera, or theatre. Under 
such wordly performances spirituality is frozen to death. 

Formerly every Methodist attended class and gave testimony of experi- 
mental religion. Now the class meeting is attended by very few, and in many 
churches abandoned. Seldom the stewards, trustees and leaders attend class. 
Formerly nearly every Methodist prayed, testified or exhorted in prayer meet- 
ing Now but few are heard. Formerly shouts and praises were heard. Now 
such demonstrations of holy enthusiasm and joy are regarded as fanaticism. 

Worldly socials, fairs, festivals, concerts and such like have taken the 
place of the religious gatherings, revival meetings, class and prayer meetings 
of earlier days. How true that the Methodist Discipline is a dead letter. Its 
rules forbid the wearing of gold, or pearls, or costly array. Yet no one ever 
thinks of disciplining its members for violating them. They forbid the read- 
ing of such books, and the taking of such diversions as do not minister to 
godliness. Yet the church itself goes to shows and frolics, and fairs, which 
destroy the spiritual life of the young, as well as the old. The extent to which 
this is now carried on is appalling. The spiritual death it carries in its train 
will only be known when the millions it has swept into hell stand before the 
judgment. 

The early Methodist ministers went out to sacrifice and suffer for Christ. 
They sought not place of ease and affluence, but of privation and suffering. 
They gloried not in their big salaries, fine parsonages, and refined congrega- 
tions, but in the souls that had been won for Jesus. Oh, how changed! A 
hireling ministry will be a feeble, a timid, a truckling, a time serving minis- 
try, without faith, endurance and holy power. Methodism formerly dealt in 
the great central truth. Now the pulpits deal largely in generalities and in 
popular lectures. The glorious doctrine of entire sanctification is rarely heard 
or seldom witnessed to in the pulpits." 

These are the charges that one of her foremost bishops makes against the 
M. E. Church. Has he overdrawn the picture? It is not likely that he 
has. It is much more likely that his description falls below the truth. His 
language is not that of a man wreaking vengeance on his church for someneg- 
lect, or wrcng, it has shown him, and to this end calls to his assistance the lan- 
guage of vituperation and calumny. But, on the other hand, it is the lan- 
guage of a man actually in the enjoyment of the highest honor his church can 
bestow upon him; and who, therefore, would never have spoken such words of 
his church, unless he had felt driven to it by the most solemn convictions of 
duty; and then his love for, and his pride in his church would dictate to him to 
use the most moderate language that would at all answer. Has not this Bish- 
op truly given us the picture of a fallen church? If he has not how could it be 
done? If a church in which worldliness has taken tiie place of spirituality; 
fairs and festivals, the place of religious meetings; a time serving and feeble 
ministry, the place of a self-denying ministry; and if a church in which the 



word of God, as well as its own discipline, is violated with impunity is not a 
fallen church, please tell us what would constitute a fallen church. 

But the above does not apply exclusively to the church of which it was 
chiefly spoken. It is a picture of the state of things existing- nearly every- 
where among- the churches of our day. Does not everybody know that such is 
the fact? Who would assert the contrary? "Babylon is fallen, is fallen." 
We shall now take up a question, in connection with the fallen condition of the 
religious world, in regard to which the Bishop quoted above is silent. The 
question to which we refer is, — 

WHAT IS THE CAUSE 

of the existing state of things? Why are the churches in this deplorable con- 
dition? Were they always so? Or is this a recent matter V They were not al- 
ways in this state? For the Bishop quoted in the former chapter compares the 
present condition of his denomination with its former state, and shows that 
there has been a great change from the better to the worse — in fact, from the 
good to the bad. There must have been some event, or factor, in the history 
of these churches that has separated them from God, and as a result of such 
separation, the existing state of things has, either wholly come about, or been 
greatly increased. We shall here take the position that the underlying cause 
of the fallen condition of the Christian world is to be found in 

THE REJECTION OF TRUTH. 

The churches of our day have rejected great light from the word and prov- 
idence of God. We shall proceed to enumerate the leading features of divine 
truth which are set at naught by the religious world at this time. We, there- 
fore, ask your serious and candid attention to what follows: The first special 
charge of this kind we make against the Christian world is, tint they reject 
light in regarcl to the 

SECOND COMING OP CHRTST. 

During the last fifty years the world has been flooded with light, full and 
ample in regard to this event. Nearly every event foretold in the word of God 
to precede his coming has been shown to have transpired. It has been shown, 
that the Gospel is now preached among all nations, as our Lord said in Matt. 24: 
14, would be the ease just before the end. It has been shown that iniquity 
abounds as Jesus said in Matt. 24:1 °>. and as Paul said in 2 Tim. 8: 1—5. 
would be the case in the last days. It has been shown that Spiritualism is the 
work of Satan and fallen angels, working miracle- an 1 deceiving the world in 
"the latter time," and just before the end of theworld; as had been foretold in 
2Thess. 2:0, 1 Tim. 4:1, Rev. 14:16 and other places. It has been shown that 
the nations are now disturbed and perplexed, men's hearts failing them for fear 
as they look for some great evil to come upon the earth; as is foretold in Iaike 
21:26. will be the case just before the Lord is seen coming in the clouds of 
heaven. It has been shown that the sun and moon have been darkened, and the 
stars failed, as was foretold in Matt, 24:29, Luke 21:25; and Key. 6:12, lo. 
would be the case, when the heavens are about to pass away, and the day of 
wrath about to break upon the inhabitants of the earth. 

Furthermore, it lias been well and truly proven, that nearly every event 
foreshadowed l)y the great system of symbolic prophesy has taken place. To 
specify somewhat, we will assert, that it has been proven, that the great Image 
of Dan. 2. represents the world's history, m outline, from the Noachian deluge 
to the second coming of Christ : and that the only event yet to transpire 1 in its 
history, is its destruction by collision with the little stone, or the second ad- 



vent of Jesus Christ. In regard to the symbols of Dan. 7, it has been shown 
that the four beasts there described represent the history of the world down to 
the last great judgment, as is seen from reading- the first ten verses, in the last 
two of which Daniel says— "I beheld till the thrones were cast down and the 
Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of 
his head like pure wool. His throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as 
burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Thou- 
sand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand 
stood before him. The judgment vas set and the books were opened." It has 
been shown that the "little horn ,, of the fourth beast represents the papacy: and 
that at the time its dominion is taken away the judgment shall sit: as is seen 
by reading verse 28. But the dominion of the Papjacy has been shown to be 
taken away at this day; and therefore it has been insisted, that the time for the 
last great judgment has arrived. In regard to Dan. 8, it has been shown that 
all the events there described have taken place. It has been proven that the 
twenty-three hundred days of verse 14 are years, and that they are in the past. 
Attention has been called to the fact that the Cleansing of the Sanctuary, or 
the judgment of the last day, was to occur at their termination, and that 
therefore this work must be at hand. The events foretold in Dan. 11 and 12 
have been shown to be passed, except the "standing up of Michael," and "the 
time of trouble,'' and that for this reason the day of wrath is near. 

Passing the stately pages of Daniel, we enter the more graphic and thrill- 
ing scenes spread out in book of Revelation. And, taking things in the order 
in which they come before us, we notice the letters to be seven churches. -as 
found in chapters 2 and 3. and assert that it has been clearly proven, that they 
represent seven different stages of the history of the church, from the Apos- 
tolic age to the close of time: and that it has been shown that we are now liv- 
ing in the last, or Laodicean stage of that history; and that we must believe, 
for this reason, that the end is not -far off. The seven seals- have been taken up 
and expounded and it has been shown that we are living under the last events 
of the sixth seal, and that therefore, the heavens are about to- pass away, and 
the day of wrath fully break upon the world. The Seven Trumpets of chap- 
ters 8 and 9, have been shown to represent the great wars that the northern 
barbarians, and after them, the great Mahomet and his successors, waged in 
Europe and Asia; as well as the history of European Turkey. It has been 
shown that we are now living under the seventh of these trumpets, and that 
the "unstery of God," or the work of the gospel, is about to be finished, in 
harmony with Rev. 10:7: and that therefore.' we are not far from the end. In 
regard to chapter 10 it has been shown that it met its fulfillment in the great 
Advent Movement under William Miller and in the disappointment in which 
it ended. The events of Rev. 1 1 have been proven to*be chiefly in the past, 
and that the time mentioned in verse 18. that the "dead should be judged'' is 
at hand, and that for this reason "the kingdoms of "this world are about to be 
given to our God and. to his Christ." The events represented by the history of 
the great red dragon.' and the woman clothed with the sun, m Rev. 12, took' 
place, as has been shown in the persecution of God's people for-ages. at the hand 
of Rome, and that we are now in the time foretold in verse 17. where the rem- 
nant of the woman's seed, on the last generation of the people of God. are to 
appear upon the stage of the world, having "the commandments of God and 
the faith of Jesus'' in their possession, on account of which they -arts to experi- 
ence a last and final conflict with the dragon. . For this reason it has been again 



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insisted, that the end is near at hand. In regard to the first beast of Rev. 13, 
it has been shown that it represents the Papacy down to the year A. D., 1798. 

Attention has been called to the fact, that just at this point, John not only 
drops the history of the first beast, but brings forward another, which he de- 
scribes as "having horns like a lamb. 1 ' It has been shown that this second 
beast represents the United States which was just rising into prominence 
among the nations in 1798. It has been proven that Sunday is the mark of the 
beast. It has been shown that there is now on foot in this country a great 
movement known as "The National Reform 11 Movement; having for its object 
to secure more stringent legislation in support of Sunday. It has been shown 
that the current in this direction is so strong, that it is only a matter of time 
when that movement will eventuate in the most rigorous persecution, and the 
Protestant world repeat the history of Rome, as is foretold will be the case in 
closing events of history. In view of this matter also it has been held that we 
are near the close of time. In concluding this list of facts, going to show, 
that the second coming of .Christ is near at hand, we state, that it has been 
proven that the great messages described in Rev. 14: 6— 12, as being giv- 
en by three angels, have been heard in the world, in the great Advent move- 
ments of the present generation, and that we are now about to witness the 
conclusion of their work, in the proclamation of the mighty angel of Rev. 18. 
This fact again shows, as has been insisted upon, that the Lord is soon to ap- 
pear. 

Thus has the proof been given, that the second coming of our Lord Jesus 
Christ is at hand. Proof drawn from prophesy, drawn from history, drawn 
from the present state of the world, drawn from the state of the churches, 
drawn from the progress of the plan of redemption, in heaven and on earth, 
drawn from the sun and moon, and from the stars of light. Thus it is seen 
that nature, "through all her elements, 11 unites with all nations, and churches, 
and with God, angels, demons and men, to proclaim to the inhabitants of 
earth, that "The Great Day*' is at hand. 

But what has the Christian world done with all this array of proof ? Have 
they accepted it, as if they wished to show their faith in, and love for, the 
word of God? No. They have rejected it with disgust and abhorrence. And 
on what ground have they rejected it? Is it because they have opened their 
Bibles, and the history of the world, and shown these interpretations to be 
wrong? Have they gone through what our Savior and Paul said would trans- 
pire in the last days, and shown, that those things have not yet come to pass, 
and that therefore, we are not near the end? If they have done this, -where is 
the record to show they did it? Have they reviewed the great field of symbolic 
prophesy, as given in the books of Daniel and Revelation, and shown that the 
events covered by those symbols have not yet come to pass, and that therefore, 
the end is not near? If they have done this, we should be glad to learn when 
and where they did it. Have they shown that the various lines of events called 
for by the seven letters, the seven seals, and the seven trumpets, have not been 
developed, and that therefore, we should not expert the end soon? If they have 
done this, when, where and how did they do it? Have they shown that the 
messages proclaimed by the three angels described in Rev. 14, have not been 
placed before the present inhabitants of earth, and that therefore, the coming 
of our Lord is not near at hand? It would greatly please us to know at what 
time and plate, and by what means, they did this. Have the leaders of the 
Christian world rejected the coming of the Lord, and the vast mass of evi- 



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dence in proof of it, for such reasons as the foregoing? No. But they reject 
it because — because— because — Mr. Miller made a mistake, some people sold 
their property, some others neglected theirs, and some were actually reported 
to have put on ascension robes ! ! ! 

Thus the matter stands, and thus it will stand when the Christian world is 
summoned before the great white throne to answer for its conduct in the prem- 
ises; unless its leaders can arrest the progress of the car of Providence, by 
throwing across its track their fancied millennium. But we anticipate 
that the ponderous wheels of that car will move resistlessly on, over both them 
and their beloved millennium, towards the goal of a speedy and glorious desti- 
ny. We next charge upon the leaders, and the great mass of the Christian 
world, that they reject light in regard to the doctrine of 

IMMORTALITY. 

Great light has been shed abroad in our day on this subject. It has been shown 
that God alone is the great reservoir of immorality; as is declared in 1 Tim. 6 :17. 
And that from this original source it is imparted to those "who by patient contin- 
uance in well doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immorality, '' in harmony with 
Rom. 2:7. It has been also shown from the same connection, that it is "reh- 
dered'' to such at the day of judgment. It has been shown from 1 Cor. 15: 
51 — 58 that the righteous '"put on immortality'' at the resurrection. It has 
been insisted that in view of the preceding, and other scriptures, it cannot be 
true, that immortality is a natural gift, inherited, or bestowed at birth, with- 
out reference to any preceding and prerequisite conditions. But on the con- 
trary, it has been shown, that it is never conferred except upon two unchanga- 
ble conditions. And that these conditions are, first, the possession of complete 
personal perfection, moral, mental and physical; and, second, admission to the 
tree of life.— See Gen. 3:22 and Rev. 22: 2, 3. It has been shown that moral 
perfection is to be attained in this life, by meeting the tests that God places 
upon our characters, and that mental and physical perfection will be conferred 
at the resurrection of the dead, and at the translation of the living saints ; and 
that admission to the tree of life will soon follow these events. In harmony with 
the foregoing, and in confirmation thereof, it has been shown that the wicked 
are not, and never will be, immortal. They are to utterly perish and disap- 
pear. It has been proven from the Bible, that the wicked are to be consumed 
and forever vanish in the smoke of their torment. See Matt 3 :ls\ Mark V) : 44, 
where an undying worm— probably something like the horrible trichinae of 
of our day — infests their bodies until they are consumed. Further, see Jude 7, 
2 Pet. 2:6. Rev. 14:11, Rev. 20:8, 9, Mai. 3:1, and a vast number of other pas- 
sages. 

'thus it has been made clear that the Bible, as well as common sense, and 
the very nature of things, teaches that imperfection and immortality do not go 
together. It is insisted that Paul means this, when, in 1 Cor. 15:50, he says, 
that •'corruption cloth not inherit incorruption;" or, in other word-, the dyirg 
does not inherit the undying; the mortal does not inherit the immortal; And, 
if a mortal body could not inherit an undying, or immortal body, how much 
more is it evident that it could not inherit an immortal mind? It has^ there- 
fore, been held with Ezekiel, that "the soul that sinneth it shall die;' 1 but on 
the other hand," they that do his commandments may enter in through the 
gates into the city, have right to the Tree of Life, eat its precious fruit, 
"Triiunph in i minora tnl powers, 
: And clap their wings, of fire." ........ 



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But the Christian world reject this great truth. And having- cast aside 
the teachings of the word of God in the matter, are about to call in Satan, 
and fallen angels y to give them a living demonstration that the original lie, 
told to Eve, is now the truth; for the soul is naturally immortal, and "ye shall 
not die.'' When this state of things is reached, as it soon will be, we shall 
have Babylon become the "habitation of devils 1 ' and "a hold of every foul 
spirit/' and of those who hold communion with those "spirits, 1 ' such 
as mediums, and all the officiary, and devotees of Spiritualism. We now 
charge upon the Christian world, that they shut their eyes to the lig-ht in ref- 
erence to 

THE STATE OF THE DEAD. 

In harmony with the foregoing principle that man is not immortal in this 
life, it has been shown, that when he dies, every active principle of his being- 
sinks into a state of suspense, or inaction, and that for this reason, death is 
called a sleep in the word of God. See 1 Cor. 15, and the many other places 
where the dead are spoken of as being asleep. 

In connection with this fact it has been proven, that the dead get their re- 
ward at the last judgment, and not at death, in accordance with what our Sa- 
vior said of those who invite the poor to their feasts, viz.: that "they should 
be recompensed at the resurrection of the just;'' and in harmony with what 
Peter said, to the effect that, the "Lord reserves the unjust to the day of judg- 
ment to be punished." It has been, therefore, insisted, that the penitent thief 
on the cross would get his recompense for recognizing and believing in his dy- 
ing Lord, at the resurrrection of the just, and not on the day it was promised 
to him. It has also been insisted, that Lazarus would also get his reward at 
the same resurrection of the just, when angels would escort him into the king- 
dom of God, to sit down with Abraham. It has been shown also, that the 
"rich man," spoken of in connection with Lazarus, would be reserved to the 
day of judgment to be punished; when, with all .the wicked, he would be tor- 
mented in the flames. Thus it has been shown, that the dead are in a state of 
inaction, but that they will be resuscitated at the resurrection of the last day, 
at which time they will receive their reward. But the Christian world reject 
this plain truth, and are about to throw themselves into the arms of Spiritual- 
ism, that from it, they may get the proof, not to be found in the Bible, that the 
"dead are alive.'' We now proceed to charge the Christian world with reject- 
ing light in regard to the 

FUTURE STATE AM) HEAVEN. 

It has been abundantly shown, that heaven is a "place;'' that it is a 
"country;'' and thatit contains ;i -'city, which hath foundations whose builder 
and maker is God." See John 14: 1—3, Heb. 11: 14:16, and Rev. '21. It has 
.been therefore, insisted, that heaven must be a planet, or world, similar to our 
own; without, however, the sins of men, or (he curse of God. It has been 
shown that nothing Less than sucli a heaven would be a suitable abode for un- 
fallen angels, and for that great multitude of •'redeemed men, of every na- 
tion, and kindred and tongue," which John saw standing before the throne, 
"clothed with white robes and palms m their hands;" 
"From every land redeemed to God; 
Anaycd in garments washed In'blood." 

The best of all is. it has been proven that the earth itself is to be renewed by the 
hand of Cod. and the blissful scenes there to be witnessed are similar to those 
above described as existing in heaven. In fact it has been shown, that the 



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"city of our God," now located in heaven, with its glories, is to be transferred 
to the earth. See Isaiah 66:22, 2 Pot. 3:13, and Rev. 21 and 22. 

But the Christian world reject these great facts and truths in regard to 
heaven and the future state. They insist that heaven is an "immaterial' 1 
abode of immaterial spirits, and they call it the "Spirit Land.." We here sug- 
gest, that as these immaterial spirits are not quite satisfactory, and Satan is 
invited to come around and "materialize" them, to render them a little more 
tangible, why would it not be the proper thing to have Satan try his hand on the 
immaterial spirit land, and render it at least, slightly obvious, by materializing 
it ! ! How do the leaders of the Christian world avoid these great truths, in re- 
gard to immortality, the condition of the dead, and the future state? Do they 
answer the arguments by which they are proved? They do not, so far as we 
have ever heard, or read. It is so much easier, and it answers just as well, and 
may be a little better, the way matters are to cry, Materialism! Soul Sleeping!! 
and so on. There are soul sleepers. Yes, two kinds of them! One kind fall 
asleep when they die, and the other kind while they are yet alive. The first 
kind "sleep in Jesus,' ' and the second, sleep in sin. If we had to make our 
choice between falling asleep at death, to rest in the keeping of God till the 
resurrection, and falling asleep while alive; to slumber on in false security, while 
the scheme of redemption closes up, and then wake to find that the devil had 
narcotized us to our destruction, we should choose the former, and congratu- 
late ourselves that we were not in the same wagon with the other kind of soul 
sleepers. But further, the Christian world reject light in regard to 

THE LAW OF GOD. 

This law has been shown to be embraced in the ten commandments. In 
regard to these commandments it has been shown, that they embrace every 
thing that is right and exclude everything that is wrong, and, that, therefore, 
the world is founded upon them. It has been shown that all the duties and 
rights of men are included in them. It has been shown that the time allotted 
to men, by their Maker, is by that law, given to them in periods of seven 
days; and, that, during the first six them of them, they should "labor and do 
their work." Or, in other words, that God requires industry and activity at 
the hands of his creatures. On this commandment, then, rest all the right and 
honorable callings and employments of men. It is shown to be in perfect har- 
mony with this part of the divine law. and necessarily growing out of it, that 
those who do "labor and do all their work" should have the right to appropri- 
ate the product, or proceeds of their labor; and that here the right of private, 
or individual, property, comes in. It is further shown that this law positively 
recognizes the right of private property when it says, "Thou shalt not steal;" 
and still more clearly when it says. "Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy 
neighbors.'' It is further shown, that this law recognizes the right of private 
property in lan:l, when it says. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house/' 
The house is a fixed abode. And it necessarily carries with it the right to the 
land on which it stands, and to as much adjacent territory as is necessary for 
the maintenance of the family, the servants, and all the animals connected 
with it. 

It is further proven, that this law recognizes the family: for it requires 
children to honor and obey their parents, while it requires all the world to hon- 
or the tie of marriage between husband and wife. The right of life and repu- 
tation is also recognized in this code. 

It is shown that out of industry, property, the family and the right of life and 



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reputation spring all the original rights and duties of men towards each other- 
It is seen that ail these rights are by this code carefully guarded against infrac- 
tion, by those commandments which forbid killing, stealing, lying, coveting^ 
or adultery, and disobedience to parents. And here, it is insisted, lies the 
right of men to form governments, to protect all the above rights; and to cre- 
ate any political duties necessary for that purpose. 

But further, it is shown that religion is founded on this law. For it rec- 
ognizes one God, who alone is described as the creator, and governor, of the 
world, and of the universe. The worship of this God is shown to be required 
by that part of this law which sets apart the last of the seven days as a day to 
be "kept holy,' 1 — that is, this day is to be devoted to divine worship, and such 
other duties as are allied with it. The infraction of this part of the divine law 
is guarded by forbidding the worship of any and all other objects, and all ir- 
reverence to the true God. 

Thus it is seen, that, in the ten commandments, we have a law that em- 
braces and enjoins upon men all the original principles of right among men, 
and of duty to God. That it binds men together by great and strong bands; 
and, by bands equally great and strong, binds them to their God. And leaves 
them thus, under the providence of God, to work out their destiny, as part of 
the universe, which God has made, and of which he is the rightful head. 

It has been further proven that the plan and system of life laid down in 
the ten commandments is absolutely perfect. It is impossible for the mind to 
pronounce that plan and system of life to be wrong in a single particular. It 
is therefore insisted that these commandments will never be changed, or done 
away, either wholly or in part. This is why the Savior said, "till heaven and 
earth pass, one jot, or one tittle, shall, in no wise, pass from the law.'' It is- 
also shown that the Sabbath lies at the very foundation of this law. since it 
points to the creation of heaven and earth as its author, and as the sovereign to 
whom it holds the world answerable. 

The Christian world reject this part of the divine Law; although it has 
been shown, that the seven days of the fourth commandment constitute the 
week as existing among all nations originally, and as still existing among the 
enlightened races of men; and in the face of the every where acknowledged fact, 
that Saturday is the seventh day of that week. It has been shown that Christ. 
and every apostle and prophet, and every inspired writer that ever lived, kept 
Saturday and no other day. It has been shown that the New Testament recog- 
nizes this day, and no other. Yet, in the face of all this, and much more, the 
Christian world refuse lo submit to the plain requirements of the fourth com- 
mandment. And, by this refusal; set themselves against the authority of the 
divine law. For inspiration has said, "Whosoever shall break the law at one 
point is guilty of all. ''—See .las. 2:10. That is to say. to break down the law- 
atone point prepares the way to overthrow it at every point. If, after the 
Christian world have refused ol edienfce to one of the commandments, the rest 
of the world take the hint, follow their example, and refuse obedience to the 
others, and an age (if lawlessness and crime is brought in. who will be respon- 
sible? ^s it not the Christian world who have reopened the Hood gates to sin? 
And if the foundations of Society and the world are washed out by the rushing 
tide will not the Christian world have the opportunity to reflect, that breaking- 
down the authority of the law of God over the consciences of men is not a very 

good way to convert the world and bring -in the millenuiun? Hut we further 
charge, that the leaders of the Christian world reject light in regard to 






SUNDAY. 

It has been shown that Sunday originated among the ancient heathen, and 
that, from this source, the Romish Church obtained it, and that it came from 
the last named source into the Protestant world. It has been shown that the 
circumstances, in every case where the first day of the week is mentioned, in 
the New Testament, prove that it is a woiking day. Moreover, and further, 
it has been well proven, that Sunday is the mark of the Beast, mentioned in 
Rev. 13 and 14. 

But the leaders of the Christian world, in the face of all the foregoing 
clearly proven facts in regard to Sunday, still insist that they must keep Sun- 
day in honor of our Savior's resurrection ; although they know, that there is no 
weekly cycle whatever connected with his resurrection. He rose on the third 
day from the date of his death; and if a day is observed in honor of his resur- 
rection it should be every third day; or one day in the year, at the expiration 
of every yearly cycle. Is it not evident that this way of honoring Christ will 
ultimately land our Protestant churches alongside of the Romish Church, 
whose apostasy crystalized around Sunday, and also alongside of the pagan 
world, whose apostasy also crystalized around Sunday ? And is not the Pro- 
testant world fast undergoing the same process? Sunday is a denial of the 
authority of the Creator, because it is a denial of the fourth commandment, 
upon which the recognition of his authority has been shown to rest. This is 
why rebellion against God can found itself upon Sunday. With the foregoing, 
we 

CLOSE THE LIST 

of subjects, in regard to which we charge the Christian world with having re- 
jected light, full and clear, from the word cf God. Did ever so much light fall 
upon one generation of men'? Surely not, unless it was upon the Jewish na- 
tion in the days of Christ and his apostles. Is it any wonder that the churches 
of our clay are fallen ? How could it be otherwise? Is it not to be expected 
that their fall will be, not only simultaneous, but also commensurate with the 
light they have rejected? '1 he rejection of great light brings great apostasy. 
And what is Apostasy? 

Apostasy is falling from the favor of God, and being rejected hy him. 
That this is what constitutes apostasy needs but little proof. Every person who 
cares for his Bible knows that this is true. Paul shows in the first chapter of 
Romans that God "gave the pagans up 1 ' because they did not "like to retain 
him in their knowledge." I here were seme things about God that they 
didn't want to knew, so they shut their eyes and became '"wilfully ignorant." 
And God gave them up. The Jewnsh nation was rejected because they reject- 
ed the light shed over them in the days of Christ. The papal power "fell 
away" from the truths of God's word, and then God rejected it. And we have 
just seen, that the fall ot Protestantism is connected w T ith the rejection of 
light. We now proceed to notice some of the results and consequences of 
apostasy. And we shall prove that one of the first of these is 

DELUSION. 

When the Pagan world fell. God gave them over, and they soon came to 
believe that their gods had a real connection with the control of the world, and 
could render them assistance if they chose to. The Jews were "blinded" by 
their rejection of the Messiah, and to this day really believe that Christ was 
not the Messiah. The papal power believe that they are just about wh.it they 
claim to be, viz. : the one only true church upon earth. And the Protestant 



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world are about te experience a similar, or even greater delusion. The Chris- 
tian world are about to fall under the delusion of believing- that Satan is 
Christ. This seems to be foretold in 2 Thess. 2: 9—12, where it is shown, that 
just before the coming- of the Lord, Satan will be working "with all- power, 
and signs, and lying wonders, and, at the same time, there will be a class who 
will not receive the truth, and God will give them up to strong delusion to be- 
lieve a lie. We shall probably soon s^e the Christian world accept Spiritualism 
as a genuine work of God, in which Satan will act in the role of Christ. But 
further, we now mention a second consequence of apostasy, in the development 
of 

IMMORALITY. 

Take the apostasy of the Pagan world as described in the first chapter of 
Romans, and see how, after God had given them up, they became "filled with 
all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full 
of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, back-biters, haters of 
God, despiteful, proud boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents 
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implaca- 
ble, unmerciful." A state of things similar to the above existed in the church 
of Rome, in the sins and crimes of the dark ages. And, according to the 
Bishop quoted in another part of this tract, many of these sins are common in 
the churches of our day. A third consequence of apostasy we understand to 
be a 

POLITICAL RELIGION. 

That is to say, a religion that seeks for the favor or support of the State. 
The pagans resorted to the authority of law to support their systems of idola- 
try. The Romish church, in her fall, allied herself with the civil power, in or- 
der to hold her ground. The Protestant world are now reaching out their 
hands and calling upon the civil power to come to their aid; and it is only a 
matter of time when her call will be heeded, and then, as politics and politi- 
cians, with all their "claquers and hangers on," come into the churches we 
shall have the age of Constantine repeated, and Babylon will become "a cage 
of every unclean and hateful bird." And this State of things will prepare the 
way for the fourth consequence of apostasy, which is 

I'KHSECUTION. 

God always has somebody ready to expose the situation when things come 
to such a crisis, and legal persecution is the result. Protestantism is about to 
follow in the wake of Rome, and repeat her efforts to domineer the consciences 
of men and silence every voice that is raised against its sins. The efforts be- 
ing made by Protestants to gain a firmer footing on the basis of the civil power. 
can be understood as meaning nothing hut that they design to enforce their 
religion upon all. Why are they so anxious for a closer union with the civil 
authority, if this is not their object? Thus we see many of the fruits of apos- 
tasy in our churches, while the very last and worst consequences of that state 
are looming into sight before our eyes. What effect must such a state of 
things have upon those who really fc;ir God and honor his word, but are in fel- 
lowship with those churches? They will be obliged. I>y the necessities of the 
situation, to 

COME OUT OF TIIKM. 

Abraham had to separate from the pagans of his country, and kindred, and 
father's house. The followers of ( 'hrist. among the .lews, had to separate 
from their apostate brethren and be organized into a new body. The people 



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of God had to separate from Rome in her apostasy, and retire into the wilder- 
ness, or mountains of Europe. And can the children of God, in the churches 
of our day, longer remain in their communion, without endangering them- 
selves? They surely cannot witness the state of things and hold their peace. 
If they do, they will become partakers of their sins, and of their plagues. 
But, if they speak out, they will not be allowed to remain in the communion 
of those Churches. And what object could there be in remaining in their 
communion ? There is no ground to hope that they can be reformed and re- 
stored. The history of the world does not furnish an instance of the reforma- 
tion and restoration to God of a church, or nation, which had fallen from him, 
by the rejection of light sent them in his providence, unless it was the restora- 
tion of the Jews from their Babylonish captivity. There seems to be but two 
courses open before the children of God now in the churches of the land- 
And these are, to remain in them and perish; or leave them. "Come out of 
her my people." We have now arrived at the conclusion of this matter, and 
to that stage of our subject where the 

SEVEN LAST PLAGUES 

demand our attention. The judgments of God always follow apostasy. Up- 
on the heathen world they have fallen thick and fast, in famines, pestilences, 
earthquakes, and desolating war. Upon the Jews, those judgments lit, like 
bolts of wrath, in the destruction of their city and nation, and their disper- 
sion and suffering among all the nations. The papal world was scourged for 
ages, by the Mohammedan power, as well as by earthquakes, pestilences and 
wars. But the judgments to fall upon the Protestant world are not of a national 
or political, character. They are literal. For it will be seen by reading the 
account of them in Rev. 16, and also in Rev. 18, that they can hardly be un- 
derstood on any other theory. The destruction of Babylon is literal, also, as will 
be seen by carefully reading the account of it. Under these plagues the apos- 
tate Christian world is to sink like a great mill-stone cast into the sea— to rise 
no more. And. with her, sink also to rise no more, apostate Rome, apostate 
Paganism, all together making an apostate world. "And the seventh angel 
poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the tem- 
ple of heaven, from the throne, saying, 

IT IS DONE.*' 



SPECIAL POINTS. 

In the foregoing pages we have enumerated only the leading truths now 
rejected by the Christian world. But along, and connected, with these, are 
•others, of scarcely less importance; among which we might mention; — the doc- 
trine of the last priestly ministrations of Jesus Christ prior to his second coming 
— the doctrine of the United States in the light of prophecy — the doctrine of 
the three messages of Rev. 14 — the doctrine that a new people must appear at 
this day to give those messages — and so on. In addition to all the truths that 
are rejected, it must be remembered, that, in rejecting a truth or doctrine of 
the Bible, not only is that truth or doctrine set aside, but every passage of 
Scripture which goes to prove that truth or doctrine is also set aside. For, de- 
nying a truth is simply denying the evidence on which that truth rests. If all 
the verses, and chapters and pages of the Bible, which go to prove the truths 
we have charged the Christian world with rejecting, were collected together, 
it would be seen that they comprise a large portion of that book. 



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It would be safe to say that such a collection would embrace at least one- 
half of the entire word of God. We believe it would embrace even more. Yet, 
the leaders of the churches set it aside, and deny the only logical and safe con- 
clusions that can be drawn from it. What is this but rejecting 1 that word? 
And, when men reject the word of God, do they not reject God himself? When 
men reject the plain and obvious teachings of Jesus Christ, do they not reject 
Jesus Christ himself? When men reject what was inspired by the Holy Spirit, 
do they not reject the Holy Spirit itself? 

GRADUAL PROCESS. 

The foregoing truths were not rejected simultaneously. They were not all 
laid before the churches and rejected at the same time. One after another they 
were developed, from the study of the sacred word, and rejected as fast as they 
were placed before the world. The doctrine of the second coming of Christ' 
was the first special truth laid before the Christian world of this generation. 
Then light came in regard to the nature of man, his condition in death, the end 
of the wicked, and in reference also to the character of the future world itself. 
Light, full and clear, broke out next in reference to the divine law; showing its 
unity, and its unchangeable, imperishable and indestructible nature; revealing 
Saturday as the true, and Sunday as a spurious Sabbath. This was followed by 
light in regard to the United States as the two-horned beast of Rev. 13, and 
Sunday as the ' 4 mark of the beast.' 1 This work has gone on— line upon line has 
been given — truth has been added to truth — until the broken and shattered sys- 
tem of the Christian religion is at last repaired and restored. The work begun 
by Wyckliffe, Huss, Luther, and others, and carried forward by a great host of 
our noble ancestry, is completed, and those who prize "the truth, the whole 
truth, and nothing but the truth, 1 ' may now be gratified. 

GREAT ERRORS. 

Just as the foregoing truths have been laid before the Christian world and 
rejected by it, the same Christian world have taken up some error to which it 
adheres in place of the rejected truth. The second coming of Christ and de- 
struction of the world are rejected, and in their place the conversion of the 
world and the millennium are taught. Instead of the doctrine of immortality 
through Christ at his coming, the natural and inherent immortality of the soul 
is taught. The law of God is rejected and an appeal is made to human law to 
come in and sway the consciences of men. We might specify many such errors, 
but it is not necessary. The three we have named — the millennium — human 
Jaw — and natural immortality— constitute the foundations of a great system of 
error. A realm of. a thousand years in this world- human law to coerce the 
conscience in that realm and natural immortality, with which to soar away to 
heaven, without waiting for Christ to come after his people -these are the main, 
stones in the foundation of that great temple of error, unto which it is expected 
soon to gather the whole world. 

FINAL APOSTASY. 

Another special point to which we invite attention is that the rejection of 
the foregoing truths not only brings apostasy, but it. brings final and incurable 
apostasy. The heathen world had rejected no greater light when God left 
them and gave them up. The .lews had not refused more truth when they 
were cast off. The papal power had shown do greater hatred of divine truth 
when she was cast off and treated as anti-Christ. Besides this, the truths laid 
before the Christian world in our day. by special messages, are the last truths 
(iod has to offer. The messages of Rev. 14 are the last that the inhabitants of 



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earth are to hear. And the truths with which those messages are burdened are 
the very truths which the churches of our day have rejected. Hence the apos- 
tasy of those churches is final and irremediable. 

A DIRE NECESSITY. 

No logic is necessary to prove— it is self-evident — that, when churches 
have reached such a degree of apostasy and rebellion against the word of God it. 
is wrong to remain in communion with them. If it be true— and have we not 
shown that it is?— that our churches have rejected the last messages ever to be 
sent to them — if it be true that God has no more means avaible to reform theiri, 
what can men hope to accomplish ? They can accomplish nothing. Every effort 
made only reveals anew the fact, that these churches are fully set against the 
plain teachings of the Bible. All, then, that persons who do not share this 
rebellion can do is— like the Israelites in Egypt — to pack up and leave; escape 
their sins and prepare to escape their judgments. Noah separated from the 
antediluvians, in order to escape their doom. Lot left the cities of the plain for 
the same reason. The followers of Christ had to make their flight from Jeru- 
salem and Judea to avoid the destruction visited upon them. The time has 
now come when those who would escape the seven, last plagues, must forever 
separate from the fallen churches of the Christian world. 

THE LAST CONFLICT. 

Nothing is more sure than, that the proclamation of the apostasy of the 
christian world, and the consequent separation of God's true children from the 
churches, will bring on a collision between those churches and the people who 
make this proclamation. The churches will employ all their resources to sup- 
press the proclamation or prevent it from reaching their people. And, when 
other means fail, it is more than likely, that these churches will unite in an 
appeal to the law. T n that case, we shall have a revival of legalized persecution, 
which never stops short of inflicting death. When this stage is reached, the 
Christian world will have "filled the cup of her iniquities," and her career will 
be suddenly arrested by the second advent of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

"The Lord will come, but not the same 
As once, a lowly form he came— 
A weary man, and full of woes— 
A silent lamb before his foes. 

"The Lord will come— a dreadful form ; 
With wreath of flame and robe of storm; 
On cherub wings and wings of wind- 
Anointed judge of human kind." 

, Thus will end the long controversy between Christ and Satan — and between 
the church of Jesus Christ and the apostate peoples of earth. Of Zion it may 
then be said— her conflicts are over—" her warfare is accomplished.'' 

"Triumphant Zion, lift thy head 
From dust, from darkness and the dead. 
Though humbled long, awake at length, 
And gird thee with thy Savior's strength. 

."No more shall foes unclean invade, 
Or fill thy hallowed walls with dread. 
No more shall hell's insulting host 
Their vict'ry, and thy sorrows, boast." 



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Part Second. 



THE LOUD CRY. 

We design now to show, that the foregoing- pages contain the true basis 
of the Load Cry. We shall also point out some erroneous views that are prev 
alent, to a greater or less extent, on this subject; and show how the loud cry is 
to be initiated; and what consequences will follow. 

REVELATION 18. 

We undertake to prove first, that the loud cry is based on the eighteenth 
chapter of Revelation. For proof we refer to chapter 38, vol. 4, Great Contro- 
versy. That chapter is entitled, "The Loud Cry; 1 ' and begins as follows: 

"I saw another angel come down from, heaven, having great power, and 
the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily, with a strong 
voice, saying, 'Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen; and is become the habita- 
tion of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean 
and hateful bird.' " "And I heard another voice from heaven saying, 'come 
out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive 
not of her plagues.' " 

These are the first few verses of Rev. 18. And their being given, as they 
are, at the head of the chapter on the loud cry, shows that they constitute the 
foundation of that work. Read the entire chapter on the loud cry, in vol. 4, 
and there will be no doubt left in the mind of an Adventist that the loud cry is 
based on Rev. 18. 

PARTICULAR POSITIONS. 

Having just shown, in a general way, that Rev. 18 is the basis of the loud 
cry, we shall now undertake to prove, that the special positions taken in our 
treatise on the fall of Babylon, correspond with the positions to be taken in 
the loud cry. Again we quote from vol. 4: 

"Tn this scripture, [Rev. 18], the announcement of the fall Babylon, as 
made by the second angel, is repeated, with the additional mention of the cor- 
ruptions which have been entering the churches since 1844. A terrible condi- 
tion of the religious world is here described. With every rejection of truth, 
the minds of the people have become darker, their hearts more stubborn, until 
they are intrenched in an infidel hardihood. In defiance of the warnings God 
has given, they continue to trample upon one of the precepts of the decalogue, 
and they persecute those who hold it sacred. Christ is set at naught, in the 
contempt placed upon his word and his people.— Page 421. On page 422 is 
the following language : 

"Of Babylon at this time it is declared, 'her sins have reached unto heaven 
and God hath remembered her iniquities. She has filled up the measure of 
her guilt, and destruction is about to fall upon her. 1 But God still has a peo- 
ple in Babylon; and before the visitation of his judgments, these faithful ones 
must be called out, that they partake not of her sins, and receive not of her 
plagues. Hence the movement symbolized by the angel coming down from 
heaven, lightening the earth with his glojry, and crying mightily with a strong 
voice, announcing the sins of Babylon. In connection with his message the 
call is heard, 'Come out of her my people.' " On page 424 is this language: 

"The sins of Babylon will be laid open. The fearful results of a union of 



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church and state, the inroads of spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress 
of the papal power — all will be unmasked. By these solemn warnings the 
people will be stirred. Thousands upon thousands have never listened to 
words like these. In amazement they hear the testimony that Babylon is the 
church, fallen because of her errors and sins, and because of her rejection of 
the truth sent to her from heaven." 

The above quotations are sufficient for our purpose. We call attention to 
some statements contained in them. In several places the ''rejection of truth' 1 
is referred to as one of the sins charged upon Babylon. For instance, on page 
421 is this language : "With every rejection of truth the minds of the peo- 
ple have become darker." On page 424 we find this: "In amazement they 
hear the testimony, that Babylon is the church, fallen because of her errors and 
sins, and because of her rejection of the truth sent to her from heaven. 1 ' 

In the foregoing treatise on the fall of Babylon, we have taken the posi- 
tion, that her fall was caused by her rejection of truth. And we enumerated 
the leading truths which the Christian world reject. The rejection of these 
great truths lies at the very foundation of her fall. And her other sins, 
though many and great, are but the natural and logical consequences of the re- 
jection of truth by her. If she had received the truths she has rejected, in- 
stead of falling lower and lower, she would have been rising in excellence. By 
rejecting so many great truths from the word of God, she has pulled down the 
barriers God had erected against sin and error, and thus opened the flood gates to 
every evil. So that it is now true, that Babylon is not only fallen, but is fast 
becoming the habitation of devils, the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of 
every unclean and hateful bird. A process which will continue until she has 
filled up the cup of her iniquities, and God's judgments shall lay her low. 

Notice some more statements in the quotations taken from vol. 4. On 
page 422 is this language: — Of Babylon at this time it is declared, her sins 
have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. She has 
filled up the measure of her quilt, and destruction is about to fall upon her. 
This is in harmony with that part of our treatise where we show, that, in con- 
sequence of rejecting the last great messages and the truths which they offer, 
the rebellion of the Christian world against God has reached its climax, and 
her fall is, in consequence, final and eternal. That part of the sins of Baby- 
lon, which consist in the rejection of truth may already be said to have 
reached unto heaven. She has rejected all there is to reject; and she has 
filled up this part of the cup of her iniquities. Yet some of her secondary 
sins, or those that come in as consequences of rejecting truth, may not yet be 
fully developed. This part of the cup of her iniquities, may not yet be quite full. 

Another point we notice in the quotations from vol. 4 is, that under the 
loud cry, God's people will be called out of Babylon. On page 422 is this 
language: — "'But God still has a people in Babylon; and before the visitation 
of his judgments, these faithful ones must be called out. In our treatise we 
have shown, that the fall of the churches, being final, no further effort to re- 
form them will be made, and, therefore, Ciod's people should be hurried out of 
them, as they are about to be destroyed by the last plagues. 

The foregoing points of comparison are sufficient to show an exact harmony 
between our exposition of the eighteenth chapter of Revelation and what the 
fourth volume of the Great Controversy says on the subject of the '"Loud Cry." 

NECESSARY TO ROUD CRY. 

We now venture the proposition, that the foregoing positions, drawn from 



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Rev. 18, are necessary to the loud c and that, without them, there can be no 
loud cry. On page 422, vol. 4, aft brief sketch of the warnings to be drawn 
from Rev. 18, is this language: — 1 .Jiese warnings join the third angel's mes- 
sage, it swells to a loud cry.'' Then these warnings must be joined with our 
present work in order to bring a 1 out the loud cry. And there can be no loud 
cry until they are so joined. The loud cry cannot be brought on in any other 
way. 

ACTION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE. 

The proposition, that the general conference is the highest ecclesiastical 
authority among Adventists needs no proof. It is also an admitted fact, that 
no new points of faith, or practice, can be brought in and adopted, but by the 
action of that body. Now, as there are new and special points in the eighteenth 
chapter of Revelation, and as those points have not yet been united with the 
third angel's message, it follows, that here is work for the general conference. 
That body will have to investigate these matters, and decide as to what con- 
stitutes the special warnings of Rev. 18. When this inquiry has been made in 
the providence of God, and decided in harmony with whatever may be the 
truth in the premises, we shall have the foundation laid for the loud cry; and 
will have the right to expect that feature of the third angel's message to begin. 
But until such investigation and decision of the general conference is had, we 
need not expect to see the loud cry set in. But while the action of the general 
conference is necessary, as shown above, the light with reference to Rev. 18, 
and the loud cry, will not originate with that body. In the first instance it 
will be brought forward by 

NON-OFFICIAL PERSONS. 

This fact is stated on page 424 of vol. 4. The language is as follows: — 
"As the time comes for the loud cry to be given, the Lord will work through 
humble instruments, leading the minds of those who consecrate themselves to 
his service. The laborers will be qualified by the unction, of his Spirit, rather 
than by the training of literary institutions." This quotation shows, that 
those to whom this light is first committed are in humble stations, that they 
do not receive this light from literary institutions, nor from any other persons 
whatever, but from the Spirit of God, which leads their minds into it. It proves, 
also, that before the loud cry actually begins, God will be working through 
these persons to prepare the way for the loud cry. When this preliminary 
work has been done, and the general conference has also taken suitable action 
in the matter, then it may be said, that the angel of Rev. 18 has united with 
the third angel. We may then hope to witness the most important and thrilling 

CONSEQUENCES. 

Some of these consequences are described in vol. 4, pp. 429, 430. It is 
there declared, that:— "The angel who unites in the proclamation of the third 
message is to lighten the whole earth with his glory." A work of world-wide 
extent, and unwonted power, is here brought to view. The Advent movement 
of 1840-44 was a glorious manifestation of the power of God, The first mes- 
sage was carried to every missionary station in the world, and in this country 
there was the greatest religious interest which has been witnessed in any land 
since the reformation of the sixteenth century. But these are to be far exceed- 
ed by the mighty movement under the loud cry of the third message. The work 
will be similar to that of the day of pentecost.'' "By thousands of voices, all 
o ur he earth, the message will be given." "The message will be carried, as 
was the midnight cry of 1844, not so much by arguments, as by the deep con- 



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viction of the Spirit of God. The ar nents have been presented. The seed 
has been sown, and now it will sprin i and bear fruit. The publications 
distributed by missionary workers ha xerted their influence. Yet many, 
whose minds have been impressed, have been prevented from fully compre- 
hending the truth, or from yielding obed'^nce. Now the rays of light pene- 
trate everywhere. The truth is seen in its clearness, and the honest children of 
God sever the bands which held them.'' 

As another consequence of the loud cry, and the power attending it, the 
"conflict" is brought on. In vol. 4, p. 425, is this language: — "The power at- 
tending the message only maddens those who oppose it. The clergy put forth 
almost snperhuman efforts to shut away the light, iest it should shine upon 
their flock. By every means at their command they endeavor to suppress the 
discussion of these vital questions. The church appeals to the strong arm of 
civil power; and, in this work, papists are solicited to come to the help of Protes- 
tants. The movement for Sunday enforcement becomes more bold and decided. 
The law is invoked against commandment keepers." Thus it is made clear, 
that thg conflict and persecution are the result of the loud cry, and not, that the 
loud cry is the resultof persecution. 

TWO ERRORS. 

In view of all that precede, we cm easily detect any errors that may have 
obtained a recognition among us in regard to the loud cry. There are two er- 
rors somewhat current on this subject. One is— that the loud cry is, or may 
now be, in progress, in our extensive missionary operations, and the world- 
wide circulation of our literature. In the light of a foregoing quotation from 
vol. 4, p. 43 ), we can safely say, that these things precede, and prepare the 
way for, the loud cry; but they are not the loud cry The second error we 
notice is this -that we are not to expect any special person, or persons, to arise 
among us with the light in reference to the loud cry; or. that special measures 
will have to be taken to bring it about. This last idea, we are informed, is be- 
ing adopted by some of the leading men. But it is evidently an error, and one 
that is of recent origin. 

CONCLUSION. 

As a conclusion to this publication, and as a confirmation of the things 
contained in it, and as its chief attraction, we quote, entire, the chapter on the 
loud cry in Early Writings, beginning on page 137. It reads as follows: 

"I saw angels hurrying to and fro in heaven, descending to earth and 
again ascending to heaven, preparing for the fulfillment of some important 
event. Then 1 saw another mighty angel commissioned to descend to earth, to 
unite his voice with the third angel, and give power and force to his message. 
Great power and glory were imparted to the angel, and, as he descended, the 
earth was lightened with his glory. The light which attended this angel 
penetrated everywhere, as he cried mightily, with a strong voice, saying, 
'Babylon, the great, is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils. 
a»id the hold of every foal spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.' 
The message of the fall of Babylon, as given by the second angel, is repeated, 
with the additional mention of the corruptions which have been entering the 
churches since 1844. The work of this angel comes in at the right 
time to join in the last great work of the third angel's message, as it swells 
to a loud cry. And the people of God are prepared to stand in the hour of 
temptation which they are soon to meet. I saw great light resting upon them, 
and they unite J to fearlessly proclaim the third angel's message. 



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Angels were sent to aid the mighty angel from heaven. And [ heard 
voices which seemed to sound everywhere — *Come out of her, my people, that 
ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues; for her 
sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.' 

The message seemed to be an addition to the third message, joining it. as 
the midnight cry joined the second angel's message of 1844. The glory of God 
rested upon the patient, waiting saints, and they fearlessly gave the last solemn 
warning, proclaiming the fall of Babylon, and calling upon God's people to 
come out of her, that they might escape her fearful doom. The light 
that was shed upon the waiting ones penetrated everywhere; and those in 
the churches who had not heard and rejected the three messages, obeyed the 
call and left the fallen churches. Many had come to years of accountability 
since the messages had been given, and the light shone upon them, and they 
were privileged to choose life or death. Some choose life, and took their stand 
with those who were looking for their Lord, and keeping all his command- 
ments. The third message was to do its work. All were to be tested upon it, 
and the precious ones were to be called out of the religious bodies. A com- 
pelling power moved the honest, while the manifestation of the power of God 
brought a fear, and a restraint, upon their unbelieving relatives and friends: 
so that they dared not, neither had they the power to, hinder those who felt the 
work of the Spirit of God upon them. The last call was carried even to the 
poor slaves; and the pious among them poured forth their song's of rapturous 
joy, at the prospect of their happy deliverance. Their masters could not check 
them. Fear and restraint kept them silent. Mighty miracles were wrought, 
the sick were healed, and signs and wonders followed the believers. God was 
in the work, and every saint, fearless of consequences, followed the dictates of 
his own conscience, and united with those who wer° keeping all the command- 
ments of God, and, with power, they sounded abroad the third message. 1 
saw that this will close with power and strength far exceeding the midnight cry. 

Servants of God, endowed with power from on high, with their faces light- 
ed up and shining with holy consecration, went forth to proclaim the message 
from heaven. Souls that were scattered all through the religious bodies an- 
swered to the call, and the precious were hurriei out of the doomed churches, 
as Lot was hurried out of Sodom before her destruction. God's people were 
strengthened by the excellent glory which reste 1 upon them in rich abundance, 
and prepared them to endure the hour of teinptxtion. I heard a multitude of 
voices saying— 'here is the patten • I of th i satnfo. Here are they that keep the 
commandments of God. and the faith of Jesus." 

"Ye who rose to meet the Lord; 
Ventured on his faithful word: 
Faint not now. for your reward 
Will be quickly given. 

Paint not, always watch and pray. 

.Jesus will no more delay. 

Even now "t is dawn of day- 
Day-star beams from heaven." 

"Tones of thunder, through the sky — 
Angel voices sounding high- 
Echo still the mighty cry, 
'Jesus quickly come." 

"Even so. come, Lord .lesus. Conic quickly.*' 



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Paet Third." 



OUR DEFENSE. 
By this, we mean, our defense against Butler, Jones, and the Kansas City 
church. The views expressed in the foregoing parts of this pamphlet, and our 
connection with them, have brought upon us the malediction of these parties. 

CENSURED. 

We were censured by the church in Kansas city. In order to give an idea 
as to how this censure came to be passed, we shall have to give a brief sketch 
of D. T. Shireman and his connection with our people. He became a professed 
Adventist in Iowa, years ago. In the days of Snook and Brinkerhoff he was 
strongly inclined to g_o with them, and did go so far as to sign a written state- 
ment intended to prove Mrs. White guilty of lying. Subsequently he went to 
Chicago. Then tried Topeka. Next, he appeared in Kansas City. Kansas 
City is a new and growing place. Many Adventists have gone there to get work, 
and this has caused quite a church to spring up. Mr. Shireman goes to every 
newly arrived Adventist. appears very pious, gets him into his confidence, and 
under his influence, and, in this way, builds himself up. He pretends to have 
labored there at a great financial sacrifice. But this is not true. He has been 
well paid. Considering the small amount, and poor quality; of his labor, he 
has been the best paid man that ever had any connection with onr work. 

Another special point with this man is. to break down and drive out of the 
church those whom he cannot control. Sr. Foster and her daughters moved to 
Kansas City. Mr. S. sought to buy their confidence and submission by pre- 
tended charity. When it became evident that he could not keep this intelligent 
and educated family under his control, he determined to destroy them. He 
circulated the most villainous lies through the church, in regard to Sr. Foster 
and her daughters, although they were also members of the church. The 
church forever silenced those lies, but failed to expel the slanderer. This fam- 
ily have been driven from the church, by Shireman's crimes. 

On account of these matters, and in view of Shireman's ignorance, and 
lack of qualification, we opposed his election as elder of the church. For do- 
ing so, and for holding the views expressed in this pamphlet, on the "'fall of 
Babylon,'" and the '"loud cry, 1 ' Jones got us censured. The censure was passed 
without any reply being made to what we had said, or any investigation as to 
its truth: though we demanded such an investigation. And we were silenced, 
by Jones, when we undertook to s'tow that the censure should not be passed. 

The investigation into the truth of the charges we made a gainst Shireman, 
and which the church refused, we now demand, at the hands of the 
Mo. Conference. In regard to the church in Kansas City, we demand, 
that it be disbanded, its records *urnt and that a new church be organized, 
with Sr. Foster at its head. In regard to this man Shireman, we demand, that 
he be utterly separated from the people of Cod. and left to meet his reward in 
the billows of that ""lake of fire' 1 which he so much, and so justly dreads. For. 
that God who has no crimes to cover up by being "righteous overmuch," can 
endure him no longer. 

* We had no thought of writing this part when the cover and title-pages were printed. 
Fortius reason the title to this part does not appear on them. 



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DISFELLOWSHrPPED. 

We now proceed to show how Jones got the Kansas City church to disfel- 
lowship us. By the assistance of letters, written by G. I. Butler, a conspiracy 
was formed between S. M. Ford and his wife, Missouri Kester, and the judges 
of the Circuit Court, in Kansas City, to rob me of my child. They tore her 
from me, and placed her in an asylum for children who had no one to take care 
of them. At this place there were nearly a hundred children ''of all sorts/' 
There were two or three women there to look after them. My child had to 
sleep in the same bed with three others. Said she did not get enough to eat. 
Her hair was not combed during three days, and, on the next day, they were 
going to cut her hair off close to her head. She had no attention, and had to 
take care of herself. She had to go to bed at sunset, even though it was in the 
winter. But she said, "this was the best part about it;'' for, then, she could 
cry all she wanted to, and she would lie there and cry all night. Her heart was 
broken with grief. When I would go to see her and start away, she would 
throw her arms about my neck, to keep me from going, while streams of tears 
ran down her anguished face. 1 would have to force myself away from her. I 
pray God to forgive me. After leaving her there three days, I took her away, 
"without leave or license; 1 ' and this is what Jones calls, "a crime against the 
laws of Mo." And this is the "unlawful and disorderly conduct" Jones got us 
disfellowshipped for. 

Now, instead of this being a violation of the law of Mo., we will show that 
I would have violated the law of this state if I had not taken her away. Section 
1273, p. 224, of the Revised Statutes of Mo., being the law now in force, says: 
If any man shall, without good cause, * abandon his child or children under the 
age of twelve years, * and shall fail, neglect or refuse to maintain and provide 
for such * child or children, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by impris- 
onment in the county jail not more than one year, or by a fine of not less than 
fifty, nor more than one thousand, dollars, or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment." 

According to this, it was my duty to take my child and properly care for 
her, unless the action of the above mentioned conspirators, in putting her 
there, was a "good cause" why I should "fail, neglect, or refuse" to provide 
for her. 

We will now prove, that this was not only not a good cause why 1 should 
leave my child in such a place, but that it was a 

I ' E X r T E N T r A BY ( > F F K N S E 

in (Jill. Slover, ami others, to tike herfrom me and put her there. Hut before 
we bring forward the special Mo. law whose penalty they have incurred, we 
wish to place before the reader a brief view of the "law, on the subjectof "Fath- 
ers and their children." We will begin by ((noting the greatest American 
writer upon the law, viz: Chancellor Kent, [n Kent's Commentaries, vol. 2, 
p. 182, is this language: 

"The wants and weaknesses of children render it necessary that some per- 
son maintain fchem, and the voice of nature has pointed nut the parent as the 
most lit and proper person. The laws and customs of all nations have enforced 
this plain precept of universal law." 

Again, in his Commentaries, vol. 2, p. 213, the same author says: 
'•The father land on his death the mother) is generally entitled to the 
custody of the infant children, inasmuch as they are their natural protectors, 
for maintenance and education.'' 



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According to this great authority, the right of the parent to the custody 
of his children is founded in the law of nature, and sanctioned and upheld by 
the laws of all nations. We might fill a volume with quotations, to the same 
effect, from all the great writers on general law, and from the decisions of 
high courts in cases involving this principle. We will now prove that the law 
of Missouri is in perfect harmony with the above. Section 2560, page 432, of 
the Revised Statutes of Missouri, now in force, says : 

'"In all cases not otherwise provided for by law, the father; while living, 
and after his death, the mother, if living, shall be the natural guardian and 
curator of their children, and have the custody and care of their persons, edu- 
cation and estates." 

So deeply is this principle imbedded in the law of nature and in the laws 
of the world, that high courts have held, that a father cannot divest himself of 
right, and any agreement he makes to this effect, even though made with his 
wife, is null and void. Kent's Commentaries, Vol. 2, pp. 213,214, note.C, 
says : * 

'•In the case of the People against Mercien, it was, after an elaborate dis- 
cussion. * * * declared that the husband could not, by agreement with his 
wife, alienate to her his right to the custody of their children, and the agree- 
ment.'' made for this purpose, "was void. 1 ' — See 3 Hill. 

If he could not alienate this right to his wife, certainly he could to 
no one else. There is only one way in which a father's right to his children 
can pass from him. He may, by negligence, or cruelty, or inability, or crime, 
forfeit this right. Kent's Commentaries, Vol. 2, p. 213 note h, says: 

•'The courts award children to the father," unless he had abused the right 
to the custody of his child, or there be an apprehension of cruelty, or some ex- 
hibition of gross profligacy, or want of ability to provide for his children.' 
On the same page is the language of Chancellor- Kent, himself, as follows : 

The courts of justice may, * when the morals, or safety, or interests of 
the children strongly require it, withdraw the infants from the custody of the 
father or mother, and place the care and custody of them elsewhere." 

These are the causes for which a father's child may be taken from him, 
and there is no law in heaven or earth — nor in Missouri — to take his child from 
him for any minor cause. Are these, or any of them, the reason why our 
child was torn from us? No. No such causes were assigned. But one of the " 
judges had promised his fellow conspirators privately, that, if they would 
bring the case up, he would take our child from us. And they took her in vio- 
lation of every law, both human and divine; and in violation of Section 1270, 
p. 223 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, which says: 

•'Every person who shall, maliciously, forcibly or fraudulently, lead, take 
or carry away, or decoy or entice away, any child under the age of twelve 
years, with the intent to detain or conceal such child from its parent, guardian 
or other person having the lawful charge of such child, shall upon conviction, 
be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years, or in 
a county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not less than five hundred 
dollars.'' 

It is now clear, that those who robbed us of our child are criminals, and 
ought to be in the penitentiary. Yet Jones says, we are the one who is guilty 
of the "crime'' of violating this section of the laws of Mo. ! ! ! We pass this 
su b j ect no w an d tak e u p 



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JONES 1 LETTER. 

We do not mean his letter to the churches in regard to us, but a certain 
letter he wrote to us last summer, and which is now in our possession. There 
is only one point in it that we notice now. We wrote him, thinking- we 
would try to adjust the difficulties we had with K. C. Church, if it could be 
done honorably. We were not aware, at the time we wrote him, that he had 
got the church to expel us for crime. In his reply to us he puts himself on 
record as follows : 

"One year ago you was out of the church. You came to me and wanted a 
place in the church, and expressed yourself as willing to take the lowest place. 
I. interceded for you and you was taken in.'' But this is not all. After accusing 
us of not keeping our promise, he says: 

"Now it seems strange that you would turn and ask me to do the same 
thing over again, when you did not keep faith with me before.' 1 

His statements, so far as they relate to our doing any such things are ut- 
terly untrue. But in what light do they present Jones? It appears, that he 
looks upon membership in the church af if it were a matter of patronage for 
him to dispose of on such terms as he might see fit. And he claims that he 
actually agreed with us that we might become a member on condition that we 
would take the "lowest place." He says, that he actually got us into the 
church with this understanding. He says, that we did not keep our promise, 
and he "won't do so any more!'' According to this Jones, we must be kept out 
of the church altogether, unless we will take and keep the "lowest place." In 
other words, we must crouch down in a corner, like an obedient dog, and not 
open our mouth, or stay out of the church ! ! This brings us to another point 
in the case of Jones. We can now see why he is so anxious to have Missouri 
Adventists shut us 

OUT OF THETR HOUSES. 

Men. who are guilty of such things as he is, do not like to have any one 
"tell on" them. If they happen to be in office, and have a little authority, 
they are sure to call up the "gag law," and either silence the man who expos- 
es them, or persuade, or order, people not to listen. This remark will apply to 
what was said and done, at the last Conference, in regard to us. We do not 
know what it was that was there said and done, neither do we care. That 
which is done against a man in his absence, and without even a pretense of in- 
vestigating his grievanoes, is worthy only of contempt. 

The above will do on the subject of Jones. What has he done? It is safe 
to say that he has successfully "exposed his ignorance." and his malice against 
us. He has shown also that he has not as much soul in him as a common 
brute has, or he would not have accused us of crime in taking our child. 
D(isgusting) T(hing) Jones! Mental and moral idiot ! ! lie is new placed at 
Battle Creek by the hand of Providence, so that the whole denomination can 
have a good look lit him, before he disappears forever. We demand that he be 
silenced from the ministry, entirely separated from the work of God, expelled 
from the church, and left to vanish in smoke, amid the ill-flavored fumes of the 
damned. 

c. i. BUTIjEJ*. 

In Testimony No. 25, there is q chapter under the tiHe "Leadership.'' 
This chapter was an original testimony given to <i. 1. Butler. From it we 
quote what follows: 

"You are too slow. You should cultivate opposite qualities. The cause of 






— -#7— - 
<jod demands men who can see quickly, and act instantaneously, at the right 
time, and with power. If you want to measure- every difficulty, and balance 
every perplexity you meet, you will do but little. You will have difficulties and 
obstacles to encounter at every turn, and you must with firm purpose, decide to 
conquer them, or they will conquer you. Sometimes various ways and pur- 
poses, different modes of operation in connection with the work of God. are 
about evenly balanced in the mind. But it is at this very point that the nicest 
discrimination is necessary. And, if anything is accomplished, it must be 
done at the golden moment. The slightest inclination in the balance should be 
seen and determine the matter at once. * It is more excusable to make a wrong 
decision sometimes than to be in a universal wavering position, hesitating, some- 
times inclined in one direction, then in another. More perplexities, and 
wretched results, attend this hesitating and doubting than to sometimes move 
too hastily. My brother, you need to cultivate promptness. Away with your 
hesitating manner. You are slow, and neglect to seize the work and aceom- 
plish it. You must get out of this narrow manner of labor, for it is of the 
wrong order. When unbelief takes hold of your soul, your labor is of such a 
hesitating, halting, balancing kind, that yOu accomplish nothing yourself, 
and hinder others from doing. You have just enough interest to see difficul- 
ties and start doubts, but have not the interest, or courage, to overcome the 
difficulties, or dispel the doubts. At such times you need force of character. 
less stubbordness, and set willfulness, and you need to surrender to God. This 
slowness, this sluggishness of action, is one of the greatest defects in your 
character, and stands in the. way of your usefulness. Your slowness of decision 
in connection with the cause of God is sometimes painful. It is not all neces- 
sary. Prompt and desisive action will accomplish great results. You are gen- 
erally willing to Work when you feel just like it: ready to do when you see 
clearly what is to be done. But you fail to be the benefit to the cause you 
might if you were prompt and decisive at the critical moment, and would 
overcome the hesitation and delay which have marked your character, and 
which have greatly retarded the work of God. This defect, unless overcome, 
wili prove, in instances of great crises^ disastrous to the cause, and fatal to your 
own soul.'' 

In addition to the above, this man is now guilty of brutality, lying, slan- 
der, and other crimes. The crowd he belongs with, and the place where he 
will get his reward, are described in Rev. 22:15: "For without are dogs, and 
sorcerers and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever lov- 
eth and maketh a lie/'' 

We demand that he be silenced from the ministry, separated wholly and 
forever, from the work of God. expelled from the church, and left to sink into 
hell, branded — liar — slanderer — tyrant— brute — sensualist — fool. Exit.— 
G(reat) I. B(e). 

MRS. WHITE. 

It will seem strange to see this name here. Are we going to denounce her 
also? No. But we are going to quote her. In her article in the Review of 
Sep. 4. 1888, was the following language: 

"The most useful men in the world have not been the exalted, self-suffici- 
ent ones, who have been petted and praised by society; but those who have 
walked humbly with God. who have been unassuming in manner, and guile- 
less in conversation, who have given all the glory to God, not taking any of it 
to themselves, are the ones who have exerted the most decided and healthful 



influence upon the church, * they exert their God-given ability to set things in 
order in the church, whether it mikes theaa frien la or foes. When straight, 
solemn testimony is needed in rebuking sin and iniquity, even though it be in 
those of high position, they will not hold their peace, but will heed the instruc- 
tion of the God on truth, when he commands — 'Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy 
voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions, and the house 
of Jacob thine sins.' Tiiey will stand as faithfnl watchmen on the walls of 
Zion, not to hide sin, mt to flitter the wrong-doer, not to obtain the sympathy 
of their brethren, but to meet the approval of God. They will not suppress 
one syllable of truth that should be brought out, in reproof or warning, or in 
vindication of the righteousness of the oppressed, in order to gain the favor 
and influence of any one. In a crisis, they will not be found in a neutral posi- 
tion, but they will stand firmly on the side of righteousness and truth, even 
when it is difficult totake this position; an 1 to maintain it, may imperil their 
prosp?rity, and deprive them of the friendship of those whom they love/' 

What are we to conclude from the above language? It is certainly an evi- 
dent fact, that there are men in "high positions' 1 among us who are guilty of 
"sin and iniquity.'" It is also certain that some one must an 1 will expose 
these men's "sin's an 1 iniquities;"' an 1 th.it/this will bring on a "crisis.'' The 
very character of some of the "iniquities" of these men is plainly pointed out 
where certain ones are spoken of as "oppressed;'' and a part of the nature of 
the "crisis" is brought to view where the "vindication" of these oppressed 
persons is spoken of. In plain English, then, the facts are these": Some' of our 
high officers are guilty of "iniquity," and are also tyrants, and guilty of using 
their authority and official influence to "oppress" somebody, and the exposure 
of their sins, and the "vindication'' of those who are "oppressed'' will 
bring on a "crisis" in the church. This crisis must now be at hand, or the 
Spirit of God would not have prompted such language at this time. In this 
crisis true men will not remain 

NEUTRAL. 

The language above quoted says: — "They (true men) will not remain neu- 
tral, but they will stand firmly on the side of righteousness and truth, even 
though it will be difficult to taka this position." In this crisis every one must 
tike sid^s. an T stand firmly by "righteousness and truth.'' But it will not be 
easy to do this. owinir to the powerful inflaenee men in hi<rh position wield. 
Where in the world is this impending "crisis." if not in Missouri? Here it is. 
and no mistake; an 1 it is a crisis that will not "down at the bidding" of a 
"little brief authority." It is a crisis that will extend beyond Missouri, and it 
will eventuate in the "sb iking*' described in Early Writings, and in the loud 
cry. When it has been p issed through, the aspect of things will be quite dif- 
ferent. Till then, we gird ourselves for battle, in favor of a renovoted church. 

"1 love thy kingdom, Lord— 

The house of thine abode— 
The church our blest Redeemer saved 
With his own. precious blooJ. 

"I love thy church, o God. 

Her walls before thee stand- 
Dear as the apple of thine eye, 
And gravel! on thy hand 

"For her, my tears shall fall. 
Kor her, my prayers ascend « 

To her my cares and toils he ptven, 

Till toils and cares shall end 

"Sure as thy truth shall last, 

To Zlon shall he given, 
The brightest glories earth can yield, 

And brighter bliss of heaven." 



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Paet Fourth. 

THE SHAKING. 

Here is another addition to oar pamphlet. We had no thought of writing 
it till Part Third was in the printer's hands. By the shaking, we mean, the 
special shaking described in Early Writings, p. 131, et seq. Before we can 
give a clear idea of this, we shall have to place before you a brief description 
of the condition of our denomination. We shall begin with the 

MINISTRY. 

"Our ministers are not doing their whole duty." — Testimony 31, p. 5. 
"Satan is constantly at work to break down the strongholds which debar him 
from free access to souls; and while our ministers are no more spiritually 
minded, while they do not connect closely with God, the enemy has great ad- 
vantage, and the Lord holds the watchman accountable for his success." "My 
brethren, ministers and laymen, I have been shown that you must labor in a 
different manner from what you have been in the habit of working. Pride, 
envy, self-importance, and unsanctified independence, have marred your labors. 
When men permit themselves to be flattered by Satan, the Lord can do little 
for them, or through them." — T. 31, p. 12. "My younger brethren in the 
ministry, * * God has sent you to be a light to the world by your good works, 
as well as by your words and theories. But many of you may truly be repre- 
sented by the foolish virgins, who took no oil in their lamps."— T. 31, p. 17. 

"Much of the preaching of late begets a false security. 1 ' — T. 31, p. 100. 
"The truth is shorn of its power when preached by men who are seeking to 
display their learning and ability. Such men display, also, that they know 
very little of experimental religion, and they are unsanctified in life, and are 
filled with vain conceit. They do not learn of Jesus. They cannot present to 
others a Savior with whom they are not acquainted.'' — T. 31, p. 155. "I looked 
to see the humility of soul that should ever sit as a fitting garment upon our 
ministers, but it was not upon them. I looked for the deep love for souls that 
the Master said they should possess, but they had it not. I listened for the 
earnest prayers offered with tears and anguish of soul because of the iinpeui- 
tent in their own houses and in the chnrch, but heard them not. I listened for 
appeals made in the demonstration of the Spirit, but missed them. * A few 
earnest humble ones were seeking the Lord. At some of the camp meetings 
one or two ministers felt the burden. * But a large majority of the ministers 
had no uiore sense of the sacredness of their work than children." "There are ' 
many flippant talkers of Bible truth, whose souls are as barren of the Spirit of 
Go:l as were the hills of Gilboa of dew and rain." — T. 31, p. 162. 

"No matter who you are, or what you have been, you can be saved only in 
God's appointed way. You must fall helpless on the rock. Christ Jpsus. You 
must feel your need of a physician, and the nne only remedy for sin, the blood 
of Christ. This remedy can be secured only by repentance toward God, and 
faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Here the work is yet to be begun by many 
who profess to be Christians, and even to be ministers of Christ."— -T. 3 1, pp. 
214, 215. "Some who profess to be spokesmen for God are in their daily life 
denying their faith. They present to the people important truths, but who are 
impressed by these truths? Who are convicted of sin ? The hearers know, 
that those who are preaching to-day, to-morrow will be the first to join in pleas- 



ure, mirth and frivolity. Their influence out of the pulpit soothes the consci- 
ences of the impenitent, and causes the ministry to be despised. They them- 
selves are asleep upon the verge of the eternal world."— T. 31, p. 186. 

"Presidents of Conferences should be men who can be fully trusted with 
God's work. * They, even more than other ministers, should set an example 
of holy living, and of unselfish devotion to the interests of God's cause, that 
those looking to them for an example may not be misled. But in some in- 
stances they are trying to serve both God and mammon. They are not self-de- 
nying. * When the cause of God is wounded they are not bruised in spirit. 
* In their hearts they doubt the testimonies of the Spirit of God. They know 
not the fervent love of Jesus. And they are not faithful shepherds of the flock 
over which they have been made overseers. Their record is not one they will 
rejoice to meet in the Day of God."— T. 32, pp. 135, 136. 

"iMany who preach the truth to others are themselves cherishing iniquity.'' 
— T. 31, p. 72. ''I tell you, not a few ministers who stand before the people to 
explain the Scriptures are defiled. Their hearts are corrupt; their hands are 
unclean."— T. 31, p. 74. 

An address written by Mrs. White; in 1838, but which G. I. Butler does 
not allow to be circulated among our people, speaks of ''men and women of 
large experience, who have been considered patterns of piety, as 'unsanetifiel, 
unholy, impure in thought, debased in conduct.' ' The same address says: — 
"Let our ministers and workers realize, that it is not increase! light that they 
need, so much as it is to live out the light they already have. Preaching the 
most solemn truths to the people to-day, and then falling into the most abomin- 
able practices to-morrow, will not answer.'' The same address has this: — 
"Because great light has been given— because men have, as did the princes of 
Israel, ascended to the mount, and been privileged to have communion with 
God. and been allowed to dwell in the light of his glory,— for these, thus fav- 
ored, to think that they can afterward sin. and corrupt their ways before God, 
is a fatal deception. * These great manifestations by Gol should never lull 
to security, or carelessness. They should never give license to licentiousness, 
or cause the recipients to feel that God will not be critical with them, because 
they think he is dependent on their knowledge and ability to act a part in the 
great work." Again this address says: ''Fornication is in our ranks: 1 
know it, for it has been shown me to be extending aud strengthening its pollu- 
tions. Cleanse the camp of this moral corruption, if it takes the highest men 
in the highest positions.'' The above will do on this topic. We shall now 
give some evidence as to the state of the 

I'Koru:. 

We are at a loss where to begin, since there is so much on this point. As 
on the preceding point, we can only give a small portion of the evidence. But 
we begin where we first open Testimony No. bl. "'I have been shown that the 
spirit of the world is fast leavening the church. You are following the same 
path as did ancient Israel. There is the same- falling away from your holy 
calling as God's peculiar people. You are having fellowship with the unfruit- 
ful works of darkness. Your concord with believers has provoked the Lord's 
displeasure. You know not the things that belong to your peace, and they are 
being fast hid from your eyes. Your neglect to follow the light will place you 
in ;i more unfavorable position than the .lows upon whom Christ pronounced a 
woe. 

"I have been shown that unbelief in the Testimonies lias been steadily in- 



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creasing, as the people backslide from God. It is all through our ranks, all 
over the field. But few know what our churches are to experience. I saw that 
at present, we are under divine forbearance; but no one can say how long this 
will continue. No one knows how great the mercy that has been exercised to- 
ward us. But few are heartily devoted to God. There are only a few who like 
stars in a tempestuous night, shine here and there among the clouds. 

"Our people are making very dangerous mistakes. We cannot praise and 
flatter any man without doing him a great wrong; those who do this will meet 
with serious disappointment. They trust too fully to finite man, and not 
enough to God, who never errs. The eager desire to urge men into public no- 
tice is an evidence of backsliding from God, and friendship with the world. It 
is the spirit which characterizes the present day. It shows that men have not the 
mind of Jesus. Spiritual blindness and poverty of soul have come upon them. Of- 
ten persons of inferior minds look away from Jesus to a merely human standard, 
by which they are not made conscious of their own littleness, and hence 
have an undue estimate of their own capabilities and endowments. There is 
among us, as a people, an idolatry of human instrumentalities and mere hu- 
man talent, and these even of a superficial character. * God's people have 
departed from their simplicity. They have not made God their strength, and 
they are weak and faint spiritually. — T. 3l, pp. 70, 71. This quotation con- 
tains the principal features of the spiritual apostasy of our people. It is not 
necessary to add to it. Yet we will give a brief passage from Mrs. White's 
article in the Review of July 24, 1888. it reads— "Spiritual death has 
come upon the people that should be manifesting lip and zeal, purity and con- 
secration, by the most earnest devotion to the cause of truth. The facts con- 
cerning the real condition of the people of God speak more loudly than their 
profession, and make it evident that some power has cut the cable that an- 
chored them to the eternal rock, and that they are drifting away to sea, with- 
out chart or compass." These facts in regard to our ministry and people, re- 
veal to every true Adventist, a 

SAD CONDITION 

of things. We are about to be brought into a fearful conflict with the 
powers of darkness. If we should go into this conflict, in our present condi- 
tion, what would be the result? Would not such ministers and leaders betray 
us, desert their colors, and leave the field in possession of the enemy? Would 
not such people follow them, and fly before the foe? We know they would. 
But we will prove it. 

"The time is not far distant, when the test will come to every soul. The 
Mark of the Beast will be urged upon us. Those who have step by step yield- 
ed to worldly demands, and conformed to worldly customs, will not find it a 
hard matter to yield to the powers that be, rather than subject themselves to 
derision, insult, threatened imprisonment and death. * * * Many a star 
that we have admired for its brilliancy will then go out in darkness. Chaff 
like a cloud will be borne away on the wind, from places where we see only 
floors of rich wheat. — T. Hi, p. 77. Our ship is about to enter stormy and per- 
ilous seas. Would it be safe, in her present condition, to launch her out to con- 
front the foam-crested billows of opposition she is about to meet? We think 
not. But we will prove it. 

"Important interests in the cause of God cannot be wisely managed by 
those who have had so little real connection with God as some of our ministers 
have had. To entrust the work to such men, is like setting children to man- 



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acre great vessels at sea. Those who are destitute of heavenly wisdom, desti- 
tute of living- power with God, are not competent to steer the gospel ship amid 
icebergs and tempests. The church is passing through severe conflicts, but in 
the hour of her peril, many would trust her to hands that would surely wreck 
her. We need a pilot on board now; for we are nearing the harbor." God 
lorbid that our ship should be wrecked on the very rocks that lie "along the 
heavenly coast." 

WHAT SHALL BE DO^SE? 

Are all our ministers and leaders corrupt and treacherous? Are all our 
people unreliable? No. Thank God, we have generals who never showed the 
'"white feather," and who never will. Thank God, we have soldiers who will 
respond to the call of that bugle "that never calls retreat." 

Thank God, we have pilots and mariners who fear not the stormiest seas. 
"There are a few who like the stars in a tempestuous night, shine here and 
there among the clouds." — T. 31, p. 72. "But there are only a few' 1 such. 
"But few are heartily devoted to God." Same place. 

When these few devoted ones wake up to a sense of the situation, and 
realize the state of things surrounding them, and the dangers before them, 
they will go to work to set things in order in the church, and this will surely 
bring on 

A COLLISION 

between them and the great mass of the denomination, both ministers aud peo- 
ple. This collision will bring great trials upon the small company who bring 
it on. It is the "crisis 1 ' that is now at hand, and that Mrs. White spoke of in 
the Review, as given in Part Third, of this pamphlet. Ministers who "stand 
firmly by righteousness and truth," and lift up their voices to testify against 
the sins and iniquities of those in high positions, will have their pay stopped. 
And every one who is in the employ of the denomination in any capacity, and 
takes the side of right, will be treated in the same manner, and their "pros- 
perit}'" will suffer in consequence. Every one in this little company will have 
to sacrifice the friendship of many whom they had loved as brethren. In ad- 
dition to this, they will bring upon their heads the denunciations of many 
of the leaders * and ministers, and will, in many cases, be expelled from their 
churches. They will be thrown into great anxiety and distress of mind, on ac- 
count of these things. But they will carry their point, and come off victorious 
nevertheless. The control of the denomination will pass out of the hands of 
unfaithful men who now direct its affairs, and pass into the hands of this small 
company of true men. We will prove this. 

'Those who have trusted to intellect, genius, or talent, will not then [in 
the shaking time] stand at the head of rank and file. They did not keep pace 
with the light. Those who have proved themselves unfaithful will not then be 
entrusted with the flock. In the last solemn work few great men will be en- 
gaged. They are self-sufficient, independent of God. and he cannot use them. 
The Lord has faithful servants, who in the shaking, testing time, v ill be dis- 
closed to view. There are precious ones, now hidden, who have not bowed the 
knee to Baal. They have not had the light which has hem shining in a con- 
centrated blaze upon you. But, it may be, under a rough and uninviting ex* 
terior, the pure brightness of a genuine christian character will he revealed." 
— T. 31, pp. 76, 77. These new leaders will be reinforced by an army who, 
like them, came to tin' fronl in the extremity of the church. ••When tree* with- 
out fruit are cut down as cumberers of the groun 1. when multitudes of false 



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brethren are distinguished from the true; then the hidden ones will be revealed 
to view, and. with hosannas, range under the banner of Christ. Those who 
have been timid and self-distrustful, will declare themselves openly for Christ 
and his truth. The most weak and hesitating- in the church will be as David — 
willing- to do and to dare. The deeper the night for God's people, the more 
brilliant the stars. Satan will sorely harrass the faithful, but in the name of 
Jesus they will come olf more than conquerors. Then will the church of Christ 
appear ''fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with ban- 
ners. " 

It will be seen by these passages, that the '•shaking , ' and the "testing" 
time are spoken of together. The shaking is the agitation arising from causes 
within the church. While the "testing 1 ' is from outside causes. We will now 
prove these two facts — "1 asked the meaning of the shaking I had seen, and 
was shown, that it would be caused by the straight Testimony called forth by 
the counsel of the True Witness to the Laodiceans. This will have its effect 
upon the heart of the receiver and will lead him to exalt the standard, and pour 
forth the straight truth. Some will not bear this straight Testimony. They 
will rise up against it, and this is what will cause a shaking among God's peo- 
ple." — Early Writings, pp. 131, 132. ''The time is not far distant when the 
"test" will come to every soul. The Mark of the Beast will be urged upon us." 
T. 31, p. 77. The first of these quotations proves that the "shaking" arises 
fjom causes within the church; while the "test'' comes from without. The 
"shaking" draws the line between the two classes in the church, and the "test'' 
sweeps the chaff — the multitude of false brethren — out, perfecting the work of 
purification of the church which the shaking had begun. The Shaking imme- 
diately precedes and leads into the loud cry and the conflict, as will be seen by 
reading the chapter on "The Shaking" in Early Writings, which we give at 
the conclusion of this subject. 

COMMENCED. 

The Shaking is about to begin in earnest. We have raised the standard, 
exposed the rotten condition of things in the church, and the waters are begin- 
ning to be stirred. In other words, the collision between those who stand firm- 
ly by "righteousness and truth," and the rest of the denomination, is about to 
fccur. The challenge is out. The gauntlet is down. We see signs that the 
challenge will be accepted. Since placing Part Third in the printer's hands, 
we have read the "proceedings of the Mo Conference." in the Review. Those 
who took part in those proceedings maybe "dead to righteousness," but they 
are not quite dead to the situation. They seem to sniff the coining battle. They 
apprehend that this matter may not be confined to Mo., but may "reach other 
Conferences '' We wish to assure them that their fears are well founded. This 
matter, heo-inning in Mo., will spread throughout the world, wherever there 
are.Adventists that abhor criminals and idiots, and believe in "standing firmly 
by righteousness and truth." We are threatened with being fired upon through 
the columns of the Review. We shall not object to this, if they should be fool- 
ish enough to put themselves on "record" any more. If they do open fire on us 
with the big Michigan blunderbuss, we hope it will not burst like the little 
blunderbuss did. that they shot off clown here in "poor Missouri." This little 
one must have burst, for the bullets did not reach the mark aimed at, till we 
ourself went all throug-h the state, picked up the bullets and carried them to 
their destination! (The letters Jones sent to the churches in regard to us, with 
the request that they be read to the churches, had not been read, except in two 



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or three cases— and we got the elders to let us read them, or to read them them- 
selves.) It may be that the blunderbuss did not burst, Perhaps there was 
not powder— force —enough behind the bullets to drive them through. At any 
rate we did not like to see such bullets lost so we assisted them to reach the 
mark, as above described, it may be seen, from our action in the matter, that 
we believe in giving Jones a hearing. We don't believe much in gag law. 
We don't believe in gagging even idiots, though they sometimes gag us. 
They not only gag our mouth, but they "gag 1 ' our stomach, also. 

But we have wandered from our subject. We were speaking of the big 
blunderbuss they are going to shoot at us from Michigan. Now, if they do 
shoot it, we hope it will not burst. Or, if it should burst, we hope the pieces 
may not kill them. Because, we expect, we shall want another chance at them 
before they go "clean dead." We want them to put in a little more powder 
too, for we do not want to waste our time helping the bullets to get to their 
destination. Instead of shooting at us with blunderbusses, and running the 
risk of having them burst, and either hurt, or kill, themselves and bother us 
to go around and help their bullets reach the mark, we advise that they wake 
up the "Big Injin"— the G(reat) I. B(e)— the Mighty Chief. Let him put on 
his Eagle's feathers, and his bear's claws— let him paint the demons on his 
cheeks that play in his heart— let him summon his braves around him— then, 
with one hand, brandishing his bloody tomahawk, and with the other, flourish- 
ing the reeking scalp of D. M. Canright, let him raise the warwhoop, and rush 
into the fight. When the fight is over, the query, on every hand, will be — 
"Where, where, is he!" 

"But the days of the purification of the church are hastening on apace. 
God will have a people, pure and true. In the mighty sifting soon to take 
place, we shall be better able to measure the strength of Israel. The signs re- 
veal, that the time is near when the Lord will manifest that his fan is in his 
hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor."— T. 30, p. 7(5. When that has 
taken place, we shall be able to bid farewell to sin, and crime, and confusion 
in the church. Then the church will appear without "spot or wrinkle, or any 
such thing' , — then we shall come, in the unity of the faith, unto a perfect man. 
unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." Then we shall see 
flocking to the altars of the church, the saints of God throughout the world—. 

"Many as the waves, 
But one as the sea " 

"Awake, Jerusalem, Awake. 

No longer in thy sins lie down. 

The garment of Salvation take; 

Thy beauty, and thy strength, put on. 

Shake oft' the dust that blinds thy sight, 

And hides the promise from thine eyes. 

Arise and struggle Into light; 

The great Deliv'rer calls arise. 

Shake off the bands or sad despair. 

ZlOD assert thy liberty. 

i.ook up, thy broken heart prepare, 

And cod shall set the captive free. 

Vessels of Mercy, Sons of grace, 
Be purged from every sinful stain. 
Belike your Lord, his word embrace, 
Nor bear his hallowed mime in vain." 



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We here give the most of the chapter on the Shaking, just as it is found 
in Early Writings, p. 131, et seq: 

"1 saw some with strong faith, and agonizing cries, pleading with God. 
Their countenances were pale and marked with deep anxiety, expressive of 
their internal struggle. Firmness and great earnestness was expressed in their 
countenances; large drops of perspiration fell from their foreheads. Now and 
then their faces would light up with the marks of God's approbation, and 
again the same solemn, earnest, anxious look, would settle upon them. 

Evil angels crowded around them, pressing darkness upon them, to shut 
out Jesus from their view, that their eyes might be drawn to the darkness that 
surrounded them, and thus they be led to distrust God, and murmur against 
him. Their only safety was in keeping their eyes directed upward. Angels 
of God had charge over his people, and as the poisonous atmosphere of evil 
angels was pressed around these anxious ones, the heavenly angels were con- 
tinually wafting their wings over them to scatter the thick darkness. 

As the praying ones continued their earnest cries, at times, a ray of light 
from Jesus came to them, to encourage their hearts, and light up their coun- 
tenances. Some, I saw. did not participate in this work of agonizing and 
pleading. They seemed indifferent and careless. They were not resisting the 
darkness around them, and it shut them in like a thick cloud. The angels of 
God left these, and went to the aid of the earnest, praying ones. I saw angels 
of God hasten to the assistance of all who were struggling with all their power 
to resist the evil angels, and trying to help themselves by calling upon God, 
with perseverance. But his angels left those who made no effort to help them- 
selves, and I lost sight of them. 

[ asked the meaning of the Shaking I had seen, and was shown that it 
would be caused by the straight Testimony called forth by the True Witness to 
the Laodiceans. This will have its effect upon the heart of the receiver, and 
cause him to exalt the standard and pour forth the straight truth. Some will 
not bear this straight Testimony. They will rise up against it, and this is what 
will cause a shaking among Gods people. * * Said the angel — 'list ye.' 
Soon I heard a voice like many musical instruments, all sounding in perfect 
strains, sweet and harmonious. It surpassed any music I had ever heard, 
seeming to be full of mercy, compassion and elevating holy joy. It thrilled 
through my whole being. Said the angel — 'look ye. 1 My attention was then 
turned to the company who were mightly shaken. 1 was shown those whom I 
had before seen weeping and praying with agony of spirit. The company of 
guardian angels around them had been doubled, and they were clothed with an 
armor from their head to their feet. They moved in exact order, like a com- 
pany of soldiers. * They had obtained the victory, and it called forth from 
them the deepest gratitude, and holy, sacred joy. 

The numbers of this company had lessened. Some had been shaken out 
and left by the way. The careless and indifferent who. did not join with those 
who prized victory a.nd salvation enough to perseveringly plead and agonize for 
it, did not obtain it. and they were left behind in darkness, and their places 
were immediately filled by others taking hold of the truth, and coming into the 
ranks. Evil angels still pressed around them but could have no power over 
them. 

I heard those clothed with the armor speak forth the truth with great pow- 
er. It had effect. Many had been bound; f-ome wives oy their husbands, and 
some children by their parents. The honest who had been prevented from 



hearing the truth, now eagerly laid hold upon it. All fear of their relatives 
was gone, and the truth alone was exalted to them. They had been hungering 
and thirsting for truth. It was dearer a::d more precious than life. I asked 
what had made this great change. An angel answered— 'It is the latter rain, 
the refreshing from the presence of the Lord, the loud cry of the third angel.' 

Great power was with these chosen ones. Said the angel — 'look ye.' My 
attention was turned to the wicked or unbelievers. They were all astir. The 
zeal and power with the people of God had aroused and enraged them. Con- 
fusion, confusion, was on every side. I saw measures taken against the com- 
pany who had the light and power of God. Darkness thickened around them, 
yet they stood firm, approved unto God and trusting in him. I saw them per- 
plexed; next I heard them crying unto God earnestly. Through the day and 
night their cry ceased not — 'Thy will, God, be done— they have appointed us 
unto death, but thine arm can bring salvation.' 

* * Soon I heard the voice of God which shook the heavens and the 
earth. There was a mighty earthquake. Buildings were shaken down on ev- 
ery side. I then heard a triumphant shout of victory, loud, musical and clear. 
I looked upon the company who, a short time before, were in such distress and 
bondage Their captivity was turned. A glorious light rested upon them. 
How beautiful they then looked. All marks of care and weariness were gone. 
and health and beauty were seen in every countenance. Their enemies around 
them fell like dead men; they could not endure the light that shone upon the 
delivered, holy ones. This light and glory remained upon them until Jesus 
was seen in the clouds of heaven, and the faithful, tried company were changed 
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, from glory to glory. And the graves 
were opened, and the saints came forth, clothed with immortality, crying— 
'Victory over death and the grave,' and together with the living saints they 
were caught up to meet their Lord in the air, while rich, musical shouts of 
'glory' and 'victory' were upon every immortal tongue." 



Part Fifth. 

HEAVEN. 

Part Fourth has landed us at a point where it is proper to give a short ac 
count of heaven, which we do in this part. The basis of heaven is 

THE MATERIA!, UNrVEHSE. 

On this basis we shall proceed in the most simple and direct language, to 
give a brief account of what we suppose heaven to be. 

The material universe is composed of all the material objects contained in 
it — as suns, moons, planets, comets, etc., with all the various substances cqm- 
posingthem — and the inhabitants, whether rational or non-rational, that live 
upon any of them. These things constitute the material universe. The vari- 
ous forms of matter throughout the universe are essentially the same. Hock, 
metal, soil, water, air, electricity- these are the elements that lie at the basis 
of all suns, moons, planets, comets and worlds, as well the earth. The infinite 
variety of objects in nature is but so many forms of these objects, or of combi- 
nations of them. Besides these objects and combinations there are laws, called 



the laws of nature. These laws acting through these objects and combinations 
produce effects, as light, heat, life motion. These primary effects become 
causes in their turn and produce secondary effects, as thought, feeling, force. 
These again became causes, and as a result, we have knowledge and action, and 
these result in the endless inventions and productions of men, angels^ and oth- 
er rational inhabitants of the universe. These elements are 

INDESTRUCTIBLE. 

We have roughly summed these elements up in rock, metal, soil, water, 
air and electricity. We have not spoken scientifically, of course. As some of 
these objects are not simple and original elements. But as the original ele- 
ments are embraced in the make up of these, we have "'roughed them off'' in 
this manner. When we say they are indestructible, we mean the original ele- 
ments embraced in them. These cannot be destroyed by any power less than 
that of him who created them. The laws, also, that relate to them are un- 
changeable, and indestructible, except at his pleasure who established them. 
These being facts, it would also be true, that the various primary and seconda- 
ry, and all resulting effects, must be invariable and unceasing. Here we get a 
view of the 

STABILITY 

of the universe. This stability is contingent only on one fact; and that is, the 
will of Him who made all things. If to-day were the first day in the history 
of the universe, there would be indications on the "face of things'' that their 
existence was not intended to be transient. The very existence of such a uni- 
verse is a prophecy of its permanency. But this is not the first day of its ex- 
istence, it has already existed many days. Every day since the first, only 
strengthens the probability that it is to stand forever. It is pretty safe to set- 
tie down to the conclusion, that the universe has "come to stay;" and that 

IMMORTALITY, 

not only of the soul, but of the body, and of nature, and the universe is a fact. 
The only case in which we would have ground to rationally suppose that im- 
mortality would be suspended, or done away; would be, where some disar- 
rangement of the established order should take place. In that case we could 
not have the same ground, as before, on which to rest our belief in the immor- 
tality of the universe, or that part of it where the disarrangement occurred. 
It would be thoroughly rational to suppose, that the Creator would, at this 
point, exercise his reserved prerogative, and eliminate the disarranging- cause. 
And if, in his wisdom, he saw, that it would be better, in the long run, not to 
cast out the disarranging cause at once, we think it is not unrational to sup- 
pose, that immortality and the benefits of it would be suspended until the 
ejection of the disturbing agent, or cause, at least. But, with this exception, 
we cannot think of a single reason which would render it likely that the state 
of things would cease. It becomes almost a certainty that it will not perma- 
nently cease, when we reflect, that the whole arrangement seems to have been 
made with reference to the 

HAPPINESS 

of living creatures, and intelligent beings. All the elements, even for the en- 
joyment of animal life, exist. Plains to roam over, and forests to hide in. 
Streams to drink from, and verdure to feed upon. Sunlight to warm them, 
and ever present atmosphere to breathe. Skies in which birds ma} 7 soar and 
sing, and oceans for fishes. While every object is. in some way. designed to 
add to the pleasure of mere existence. 



But when we come to intelligent beings — to man, for instance— we see 
more strikingly than ever, that happiness is designed for them. Even his ani- 
mal life is to be of a higher order. His very' form is in token of this. While 
his finer organization bespeaks a higher pleasure. Then there are many 
pleasures exclusively theirs. One of the first and greatest of which is, 

INTELLIGENT INTERCOURSE 

with his fellows. In this intercourse, each one relates to the other, or others, 
his experience in whatever he may have been concerned, and lays open his 
p'ans and hopes for the future, and asks the opinion and counsel of his fellows 
on the matters brought forward for conversation. The themes of conversation 
from time to time, will be as varied as the experience and knowledge of each, 
anc! all the individuals, engaged, and will be as brilliant as their minds are 
polished, and as agreeable as their feelings are refined and genial. But in ad- 
dition to this, there will be another source of pleasure found in the great vari- 
ety of 

AVOCATIONS. 

A universe — or even a single world — cannot be suitably carried on without 
much activity, iu various ways. And this will lead to an endless variety of 
callings; giving to every one the opportunity of suiting both his talents and 
his tastes, in the choice he would be privileged to make among them. This 
point being gained, and this pleasure seized, the next source of happiness 
would be, 

TO MASTER 

the calling chosen. This would call forth all the powers, and with immortality 
abiding in, and rousing those powers, what might such a one not hope to 
achieve. This would bring him to another fountain, from which to fill his cup 
afresh, and drink of unalloyed pleasure. He would now be able to realize that 
most deep-seated longing of the heart of an intelligent being, viz.: 

TO BE GREAT. 

Great in powers and in achievements. He can now know the pleas- 
ure of being great in both respects. It is a greatness that may become greater 
yet. From the summit of solid attainment, he may survey the field of end- 
less, future conquests, and so, enjoyment of the present, blended with hope of 
the future, and memory of the past renders him a happy being. Yet his hap- 
piness is not complete, for he now longs to find a bring that 

is GREATER 
than he. He finds some who have excelled him in the development of their 
powers,, and in their achievements, but this does not satisfy him! He would 
like — his soul long's— to find a being whose powers embrace all intellect, and 
all soul, and whose achievements are immeasurable. He would like to unci 
Him who made- the universs, if he could be found. He finds Him. Finds 
Him illimitably great, lb 1 falls at his feet. He wonders, lie admires. He 
adores. He loves, and of course, evermore obeys. He is now in full posses- 
sion of happiness. There is not an unsatisfied longing in his heart. We said 
awhile ago, that the desire to be greai was tin' most deeply seated longing in 
the hear! of an intelligent being. Bui we were mistaken. The desire to find one 
greater than ourselves the desire to find the one. Supremely Great, lies deeper 
still. It lies at the bottom of the depths of the soul. Extend this state of 
things thronghoul the universe, and each inhabited world becomes a heaven, 
and the universe itself is the "heaven of heavens." That particular world 
where God dwells, and where the seat of his government is, is heaven '"par 



excellence." This is the heaven so much talked about, and which the saints of 
God are to be permitted to visit, at the Second Coming- of Christ. 

Who, who would live alway— away from his God, 

Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode, 

Where rivers of pleasure flow bright o'er the plains, 

And the noon-tide of glory eternally reigns. 

There saints of all ages in harmony meet, 
Their Savior and brethren transported to greet, 
While anthems of pleasure unceasingly roll, 
And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul. 



Part Sixth. 

HELL. 

We have quit apologizing for adding new parts to this pamphlet. If all 
we have said in the preceding parts be true, a brief discussion of •'Heir'' is in 
order. And we begin by giving an account of thf great fires of Northern Mich- 
igan aud Wisconsin, which transpired in 1871. We quote the language of the 
Detroit Free Press, as follows: — 

"Fires had been burning in Sanilac, Huron, and Tuscola counties, but no 
one apprehended any danger. Farmers had set fire to slashings to clear the 
ground for fall wheat, but this happens every fall, and the fact that not a drop 
of water had fallen in from fifty to seventy days was not considered, by those 
who saw the smoke clouds, and replied that there was no danger. There was 
danger. Behind that pall of smoke was a greater enemy than an earthquake, 
and it had a tornado at its back, and two hundred miles of forest in the front. 
From noon until two o'clock a strange terror held the people in its grip; then, 
all of a sudden, the heavens took fire, or so it seemed to hundreds. In some lo- 
calities it came with a sound of thunder. In others it was preceded by a ter- 
rific roaring, as if a tidal wave were sweeping over the country. Almost at the 
same moment the flames appeared in every spot over a district of country thirty 
miles broad by one hundred in length. 

At Richmondville, ten miles above Sanilac, 150 people had comfortable 
homes, stacks of hay and grain, teams, cows, pigs, sheep, and no fear of the 
fire wrfich they knew was burning a mile away. At two o'clock the flames 
rushed out of the woods, leaped the fences, ran across the bare fields, and swal- 
lowed every house but two, and roasted a dozen people. It is hardly forty rods 
to the beach of the lake, and yet many people had no time to reach the water. 
Others reached it with clothing on fire, and faces and hands blistered. The 
houses did not burn singly, but billows of flames seized them all at once, and 
reduced them to nothing in ten minutes. 

"I saw many and many a spot where the billows of fire jumpeol a clean 
half mile out of the forest to clutch a house or barn. The Thornton family 
were wiped out with the exception of a boy. Thornton had hitched up the 
team to drive the family to a place of safety, but when he saw they were all 
surrounded by the flames, he unhitched the horses in despair. Before they 
could be unharnessed, they bolted in different directions, and the old man be- 
came so confused that he ran directly towards a big slashing, which was then a 
perfect mass of flames, and dropped and died with his head toward it. 

••Meantime the mother and children had taken refuge in the root house. 



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This was a structure mostly sunk in the ground, and the roof well covered with 
earth. Here they were all right for a time, but when the father failed to join 
them one of the sons went out to see what caused the delay. He was hardly 
out of the place before the door through which he had passed was in flames. In 
this emerg-ency he ran to a dry creek, and by l}~ing on his face and keeping bis 
mouth to the ground he lived through it. 

"I talked with a woman who lived neigh oor to Thorntons, and who escap- 
ed by fleeing to a field of plowed ground. This was only a few rods from the 
root house, and she said it was fully an hour before the screams and shrieks, and 
groans, from the people inside grew quiet in death. One by one they were suf- 
focated by heat and smoke, and their bodies presented a most horrible appear- 
ance. To one riding through the district it seems miraculous that a single 
soul escaped. The fire swept through the green trees the same as the dry. Jt 
ran through the fields of corn at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and fields of 
clover were swept as bare as a floor. Dark and gloomy swamps, filled with 
stagnant water, and the homes for years of wild cats, bears and snakes, were 
struck and shriveled and burnt almost in a flash. Over the parched meadows 
the flames ran faster than a horse could gallop. Horses did gallop before them, 
but were overtaken and left roasting on the ground. It seemed as if every 
hope and avenue of escape was cut off, and yet hundreds of lives were spared. 
People spent ten to twenty hours in ditches and ponds, or in fields under wet 
blankets, having their hair singed, their limbs blistered, and their clothing 
burned off piece by piece. In dozens of cases the first flames spared houses and 
farms, but after seeming to have passed on for miles, suddenly circled back and 
made a clean sweep of everything. Unless one rides over the burnt district lie 
cannot believe the eccentricities of a forest fire. In the great swamps, between 
Sanilac and Sandusky, it burned everything to the roots for a mile in breadth. 
Then it left patches from ten feet to ten rods wide. Then again it struck in 
and burned lanes hardly twenty feet wide, leaving half a mile of fuel on either 
side. In timber it seemed to strike the green trees harder than the dry ones. 
It was like a great serpent making its way across the country. It would run 
within three feet of a wheat stack, and then glide away to lick up a house. It 
would burn a stack and spare a barn ten feet off. 

"People felt the heat while the fire was yet miles away. It withered the 
leaves of trees standing two miles from the path of the fiery serpent. The 
very earth took fire in hundreds of places, and blazed up as if the " fire were 
feasting on cordwood. The stoutest log- buildings stood up only a few minutes. 
The fire seemed to catch them at every corner at once, and after a whirl and a 
roar nothing would be left. Seven miles off the beach, at Forester, sailors 
found the heat uncomfortable. Where some houses and barns were burned, we 
could not find even a blackened stick. Every log, beam and board was reduced 
to fine ashes. 

"Seven miles back from the lake at Forester, a farmer gathered up fifteen 
persona in his wagon, and started for the beach. The fire was close behind 
them as they started — so dose that the dresses of sonic of the women and chil- 
dren were on fire from the sparks. It was seven miles up hill and down, with 
corduroy ruts and roots, and the horses needed no whip to urge them into a 
mad run. As the wagon started the tire'of one hind wheel rolled off. They 
could not stop for it. and yet. even on a good road, the wheel would have 
crushed down in going twenty rods without it. It is an actual fact that the 
horses pushed over that seven miles of rough road at a wild run, and the wheel 



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I stool firm. A delay of five minutes at any point of the Toad would have given 
fifteen more victims to the flames which followed on behind. I saw the wagon 
at the lake. And I saw the tire seven miles away on the roadside. 

"The people who sought the Wen had still to endure much of the heat 
and all of the smoke. Wading up to their shoulders, they were safe from the 
flamesy but sparks and cinders fell like a snow-storm, and the smoke was suffo- 
cating. The birds not caught in the woods, were carried out to sea and 
drowned, and the waves have washed thousands of them ashore. Squirrels, 
rabbits, and such small animals, stood no show at all. but deer and bear sought 
the beach and the company of human beings. In one case a man leaped from 
a bluff into the lake, and found himself close behind a large bear. They re- 
mained in company under the bank all night and the bear seemed as humble 
as a dog. In another instance two of the animals came out of the forest and 
stood close to a well, from which a farmer was drawing water to dash over his 
house, and they were with him for two hours before they deemed it prudent to 
jog along. Deer came out and sought the companionship of cattle and horses, 
and paid no attention to persons rushing past them.'' 

A correspondent of the Milwaukee Sentinel describes the fires in Wiscon- 
sin as follows: 

"Oh God! what a scene met my gaze on every side. Here came the crisis 
of the storm; her 3 the fiery elements, controlled by a tornido anil a whirlwind, 
made war on human hopes, hearts, and life. The half has not been told, nor 
ever can be. 

"The phenomena and results of this storm were mysteriously strange. In 
some places the forest trees lay in every imaginable position, while in others 
they were carried into windrows. 1'hey were mere sticks in the hands of a 
great power, slashing and whipping the earth, and then made fuel for the work 
of death. The fields, woods, barns, houses and even the air, were on fire, while 
large balls of fire were revolving and bursting in every direction, igniting ev- 
ery thing they came in contact with ; and the whole of this devouring element 
was driven before a tornado at the rate of a mile a minute. There can be little 
doubt that the air, strongly charged with electricity, helped on the work of de- 
struction and death. Mr, Kirby says, he saw large balls of fire in" the air. and 
when they came in contact with anything, they would bound thirty or forty 
rods away. Others testify that they saw large clouds of fire burst into frag- 
ments, and in some instances great tongues of fire; like lightning, would issue 
from the dark clouds and light upon the buildings. Pennies were melted in 
the pocket* of persons who were but little burned. A small bell upon an en- 
gine, and a new stove, standing from twenty to forty feet from any building 
were melted. .•- 

■ 'Many thought that the ' great day of his" wrath' had come. And why 
should they not? If persons who visit the ruins since the fire are forced to 
think that God hid his face in wrath, and sent forth his thunderbolts of de- 
struction; nay, that he gave the very fiends of hell the right and power to 
shake the place and burn it up, what must have been feelings of those who 
passed through the fiery ordeal?- 1 ' < 

The Detroit Post spoke of the same fires in the following terms:' 

"Those who were exposed, to the terrible' tornado during which Chicago, 

Peshtigo, Manistee, White Rock, and other towns on Lake Michigan and Hu- 

- k rpn, were burned, testify nearly unanimously that. ]the air seemed to be on fire. 

These words are almost invariably used in desiribing the phenomena. /The 



fire did not spread gradually from tree to tree, and house to house, but a -r great 
sheet of flame, overcoming them like the clouds, and moving with the rapidity 
of a hurrican?, rushed upon them without warning. It surrounded them. 
The atmosphere seemed filled with fire. Many-people who inhaled the hot air 
fell dead. Corpses were found without a trace of fire upon' them, 
or even upon the clothes, which still covered them. There were frequent- 
ly no marks of, fire among the adjacent trees and fences. Many were killed in 
compact masses as if by a blast of death. They were found huddled together 
away from treas an.l building*. Fish were killel in the streams by the intense 
heat. > Many of these people believed that the last day had come; as well they 
might. The roaring of the whirlwind which preceded, the .blaze sounded 
enough like the last trump to suggest a prelude to the '.final catastrophe. , The 
black midnight sky suddenly burst into flame. " .; < 

We now give a short account of the burning of Chicago. The.accoOnt is 
taken from the Detroit Post and runs as follows : 

"A strong wind was blowing at that time, and yet the flames seemed to go in- 
to all directions, like an expanding scythe, mowing great and increasing swaths 
with frightful rapidity. We could think of nothing else but hell. 
The flames were in some places like huge waves, dashing to and fro, 
leaping up and down, turning and twisting and pouring,— now and 
then— a great column of smoke .and blaze hundreds of feet into the 
air, like a solid perpendicular shaft of molten metal.. In other places it would 
dirt out long streaks, like mammoth anacondas, with hissing, fiery tongues; 
t'oen these serpentine shapes would swoop down over the. blazing path into the 
yetunburned buildings, which seemed pierced and kindled instantaneously. 
There were also billows of flame that rolled along like water, submerging ev- 
erything in their course. There was a terrible fascination in gazing upon, the 
scene. 

"It was unearthly, hideous, terrific. Our eyes seemed riveted so that we 
could not withdraw them. There were miles of fire, mountains of flame, 
■waves of light, flashes, clouds, brilliant scintillations. With the aid of glass- 
es we could see the streets thronged with people flying for their lives. Close to 
their heels in hot pursuit, came the belching, roaring, crackling flames. In 
some places they actually advanced as fast as men could run. The most awful 
of all was the thunderous roar that seemed to roll upward and outward from 
the center of the huge holocaust." 

D. L. Moody, speaking of this fire, says: As the flames rolled down our 
streets, destroying everything in their onward march, 1 saw the great and hon- 
orable, the learned and wise, fleeing before the fire with.. the beggar, and the 
thief, and the harlot. All were alike. As the flames swept over the city it 
was like the judgment day. Neither the mayor, nor the mighty men, nor the 
wise men could stop the flames.'' 

One more quotation and we conclude our description of hell : 

"Rome was an ocean of flame. Height and depth were covered with red 
surges, that rolled before the blast like an endless tide. The billows burst up 
the sides of the hills, which they turned into instant volcanoes, exploding vol- 
umes of smoke and fire; then plunged into the depths in a hundred glowing 
cataracts, then climbed and consumed again. The distant sound of the city, in 
her convulsion, went to the soul. The air was filled with the steady roar of the 
advancing flame, the crash of falling houses, and the hideous outcry of the 
myriads, flying through the streets, or surrounded and perishing in the con- 
flagration. 



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"All was clamor, violent straggle and -'helpless death. Men and women of 
the highest rank were: on- foot, trampled by the'r.ibble, that had then lost all 
respect for condition. One dense mass of miserable life, irresistible from its 
weight, crushed by the narrow streets, and scorched by the* flames over their 
heads, rolle:l through the gates like an en Hess stream of black lava. The fire 
had originally broken out on the Palatine, and hot smoke that wrapped, and 
half blinded us hung thick as night upon the wrecks of pavilions and palaces; 
bnt the dexterity and knowledge of my inexplicable guide carried us on. It 
was vain that 1 insisted on knowing the purpose of this terrible traverse. He 
pressed his hand upon his heart in reassurance of his fidelity, and still 
spurred on. We now passe I under the shade of an immense rongs of 
lofty buildings, .whose gloomy and. solid strength seemed i to void defiance to 
chance and time. ' 

"A sudden yell appalled me. A ring of fire pwept round itsn summit : 
burning cordage, sheets of canvas, and a; shower of all things combustible, flew 
into the air above our heads. Aa uproar followed, unlike all that I had ever 
heard, a hideous mixture of howls, shrieks, and groans. The flames rolled 
down the narrow street before us, and made the passage next- to impossible. 
i While we hesitated, a huge fragment of the building heaved as if in an earth- 
quake, and fortunately for us v fell inward . The whole scene of terror was then 
open. The great amphitheatre of Statilius Taurus had caught fire; the stage 
with its inflamable furniture, was intensely blazing below. The flames were 
wheeling up, circle after circle, through the seventy thousand seats that rose 
from the ground to the roof. I stood in unspeakable awe-rand wonder on the 
side of this colossal cavern, this mighty temple of the city of fire, v At length 
a descending blast cleared away the smoke i that covered the arena. The 
cause of those horrid cries was now visible. The wild beasts kept for 1 the 
games had broken from" their dens. Maddened by fright ;and pain, lions*, ti- 
gers, panthers, wolves, whole herds of the monsters of India and Africa, were 
inclosed: in an impassable barrier of fire. They bounded, they fought, they 
streamed, they tore; they ran howling round and round the circle; they made 
desperate leaps upward through the blaze; they were flung back, .and fell only 
to fasten their fangs in. one another, and, with their parching jaws .bathed in 
blood, to die raging. ' 

"I looked anxiously to see whether any human being was involved in this 
fearfnl catastrophe. To my great relief, I could see none. .The keepers and 
attendants had obviously escaped. As I expressed my gladness, 1 was startled 
by a loud cry from my guide, the first sound that I had. heard ;him utter.' He 
pointed to the opposite side of the amphitheater. There indeed sat an object 
of melancholy interest; a man who had been either unable to, escape, or had de- 
termined to die. Escape was now. impossible. He sat in desperate ; calmness 
on his funeral pile, lie was a gigantic Ethiopean. slave, 'entirely naked. He 
had chosen his place, as if in mockery, on the: imperial: throne; the > fire was 
above him and around him, and under the canopy; he gazed, without the 
movement of a muscle, on the combat of the wild beasts below; a solitary sov- 
ereign with the whole tremendous game played for himself, ..and inaccessible to 
the power of man.'' 

The scenes described in these quotations are hells, on a small scale. Ex- 
tend them until the whole earth, with every living object, is involved, and . you 
will have the last great hell. 

In other words, the last great hell is simply, the 



44 

CONFLAGRATION OF A WORLD. 

In this conflagration, Satan an 1 fallen angels, and lost men disappear, and 
in th^ir disappearance, the cause of the sins and miseries of the world vanish. 
While, from the ashes of this great fire— like the bird of Eastern legend— ris- 
es the new, and uncursed earth. 



Part Seventh. 

THE MISSOURI CONFERENCE. 

As this Conference is destined to furnish a full quota of victims to the last 
devouring flames, we give it th^ benefit of this part of onr pimphlet. We be- 
gin by making some quotations from the "Proceedings'' of the last session. 
The second paragraph has this: • ■>■' 

"The president made a verbal report of the work done in the Conference 
during the past year, calling attention to questions of interest coming up for 
consideration at this session." 

After the "whereases" and the "resolutions," we find this: 

"The president addresse 1 the delegates on the subject of dealing with those 
who are headstrong, or inclined to pursue an independent course, also those 
who have been disfellowshipped." 
i A little further on we find the following :— 

"The committee appointed to suggest a plan for dealing with 
unruly members, reported in substance as follows: 'That we would 
not advise the publication of their course through the Review, un- 
less their work threatens to become an injury to other conferences,* but that 
we heartily indorse the course taken by the president of this conference, in 
warning our churches against such persons, to be wise and commendable, and 
that it is the sense of this conference that all similar cases be treated in like 
manner. M From this it appears that the Mo. Conference is made of the same 
"stuff" that Jones is. They sanation the letter he sent out in regard to us a« 
"wise and commendable." In the estimation of this conference it is "wise and 
commendable" to charge a man with having committed a "crime"' when he has 
committed none, but has obeyed the laws of his state, and q.f the world, and of 
God, and has performed an act, every element of which was not only not crim- 
inal, but was demanded by every claim of -duty and affection. 

Query:— Was the Mo. Conference a conclave of devils, or a herd of idiots? 
How fast is this conference revealing its own rottenness. If the same state of 
things exists elsewhere the "Shaking" has not begun any too soon. We know 
that the Big Butler sanctions these crimes of Jones, and we shall not be sur- 
prised to find the bulk of every conference equally putrid. 

We fail to fin 1 the names of the committee who made the delectable report 
above quoted. We should be glad to know who they were. 

After the conference hid unloaded itself as above, it "proceeded, 1 ' among 
other things, to give "Col porter's license to I). T. Shireman." This matter 
demands a little notice. What is meant by "col porter's license?" We suppose 
it must be license to hi a "colporter, "' Bat wh it is a colporter? Here is where 
the puzzle com £ in. We s!i ill h ire to look at the etymology of this word— 
colporter -;i littl<\ M.ivIm' we can gt-r a clue to its m-aning by doing so. Now, 
this word is evi lently c imposed of few ) words, or of on<* word and a prefix. 
The first part is "col" and the secon I is -porter." There would be no ques- 



tion, we suppose, (unless the learned Jones would question it.) that this "col" 
is from "eon.'" In Latin "con" means "together. 1 ' Changed into "col,' 1 it 
would probably mean "collect." Then joining the two definitions it would 
mean, "collect together. 1 ' So far so good. 

We now take up "porter." The task here is not quite so easy. But we 
do not despair, though we may have to call upon the science of Philology to 
come to the aid of our etymology. But, to begin the task, — it will not be de- 
nied (unless by the learned !) that "porter" is from the Latin, also. It comes 
from "porto 1 ' — "to carry." We will tell how the Latins got it. After the de- 
struction of Troy, iEneas found it lying among the ruins. He picked it up and 
"carried" it away with him, when, having been 

"Driven ranch by land and sea, 
He came at last to Italy." 

Now, leaving off the "o" from "porto,' 1 we have "port," which is called 
the "root of the word. Now, when iEneas had safely arrived in Italy, he plant- 
ed this "root,' 1 along with others, in the soil of Italy, and "raised the Latin 
language. But iEneas and his descendants never forgot the meaning: of 
"port." They soon began to practice what it taught, and one of the first things 
they "carried" was the '"Sabine women," whom they forcibly took and made 
wives. This proving a profitable instance of "carrying." they concluded they 
would make "carrying" their national calling. They went to work to ''cany" 
the crowns of kings, and the treasures of all nations, to Rome, until they came 
to be called the "robbers" of nations. 

As to where the Trojans got this word, we can't tell, unless Paris brought 
it from Greece, when he "carried" 1 off Helen. The Greeks must have brought 
it along when they "carried" fire from the altars of heaven to be scattered 
among men. But. however this may be, when the Romans got done with it, 
and quit the ''carrying'' business, the Franks got hold of it by some mears, 
and "carried" it into Frcnce. This last named nation has been practicing upon 
it, but have not been so successful as the Romans. It will be remembered that 
it used to be upon a time that the French thonght they would "carry" Englanil 
across the British Channel. But they did not succeed. Somewhat later, they 
had had some success in "carrying 1 ' off different countries, and they thought 
they would pick up Russia and do a big job of this kind. But they did rot 
"eirry" Russia very far. Russia is there yet. The next enterprise of this kind 
the French undertook was when they thought they would clandestinely "carry'* 
off Mexico. But. according to the latest maps. Mexico is still a part of North 
America. They then went back to Europe, and their latest feat in this line 
was when they were yroing to "carry" Germany across the Rhine. But they 
did not succeed. At least, the last Teuton we talked with on the subject said 
they did not. 

Perhaps we are going too fully into the philology of this word. Well, to 
make a long matter short, somebody has "carried" this "port" over into our 
country, where it has crept into a lot of our words. The Americans are not so 
famous for "carrying" as some others have been. Yet they did manage to 
"carry" a continent off from thfir mother, and we have heard that they since 
"carried" off a certain, so-called, "Confederacy." 

"Col-port," then, is to "collect too-ether" and "carry" off something. A 
"col porter" is one who "collects"' things "together' 1 and "carries" them off. 
Here is the clue, we think, to the action of the Mo. Conference in giving col- 
porter's license to D. T- Shireuian For the said Shireman had been engaged 



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in "collecting" our goods and "carrying" them off. In other words, D. T. 
Shireman had been stealing from us. In the month of February, 1888, he stole 
from us a carpet, and other things. Now, since the fact of his having done so 
was known to the Mo. Conference, when it gave him "colporterV license, are 
we not obliged to conclude that they have Ficensed him to "collect 1 ' and "carry" 
off the goods of other people? Or, in other words,— to steal? 

Can it be possible that the Mo. Conference intend to insult and outrage the 
people of Kansas City — or the lowest of them— by asking them to admit this 
thief into. their houses, to read the Bible and pray with them? Or do they 
consider him just the man for that kind of work, because, having stolen our 
carpet and put it down in his own parlor, he has such a nice place in which to 
get down on his knees and pray before going out to pray with the people? You 
know after he had prayed a long time' with his knees on our carpet, such a 
saintly influence would follow him among the people, and he could "colport" 
both them and their goods so piously. 

In what we have said above, we have spoken as if the whole conference 
bad taken part in these -senseless and wicked proceedings. True, no one raised 
a voice against them. Yet we know there were those there who were opposed 
to such folly. It was proper to let the dominant spirit show itself fully, which 
it has done. The corruption of Jones and his backers stands fully revealed. 
And the time has now come, when every Adventist in the state will have to 
clear himself of all complicity in these crimes, or become "partakers 1 ' of their 
"sins and iniquities." They must speak out against such doings, before our 
conference goes wholly to the devil. . . 

We know the means used in order to force some true men to take active 
part in these wrongs. If C. H. Chaffee and R. S. Donnell can be boug-ht, or 
forced, to sanction what they know to be wrong and idiotic, we shall be sur- 
prised. Who knows but that they "may have come to the throne for such a 
time." So far as the ministry is concerned, it depends upon these two men to 
saye our conference from irretrievable ruin and disgrace. 

A Scene— Such a man as Jones; addressing such a crowd as this confer- 
ence, on the subject of guarding the, sacred cause of God in Mo. from injury. 

Another Scene — Angels of God who have witnessed the whole history of 
this world without ever being obliged to take emetics, are now seen relieving 
their stomachs. 

Another -Scene — "Plug-ugly" Shireman "colporting" his prayers, and 
the prayers of the Mo. Conference around among decent people in Kansas City. 

Another Scene — "The great army of apostles, the glorious army of holy 
prophets, and the mighty army of saints and • martyrs" turning their faces' 
downward, in their graves, to keep from witnessing the last scene, 



Part Eighth. 

SCIENCE AND THE BlBLEf. 

There is no conflict between Science and the Bible. The science of lan- 
guage does not conflict with it. Nor does the science of Arithmetic, or Alge- 
bra, or Geometry, or Astronomy, or Botany, or /oology, or Geography, or 
Chemistry, or Physics. These sciences and the Bible are in blissful harmony 
and are likely to remain so. We don*t know of any other sciences, except such 
as constitute subdivisions of the above, and are included in them. 



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But, says one, there is Geology, and there is Biology— surely, they are sci- 
ences, and surely they conflict with the Bible. We do not consider them sci- 
ences, in the full sense of that word. And it is too soon to say they conflict 
with the Bible. When they have become sciences, in the full sense, then we 
can tell whether such a conflict will exist. Great and noble efforts have been, 
and still are being, made to create the science of Geology. These efforts, with 
others yet to be made, will eventuate in such a science. 

it is the same with Biology. Such a science is "coming. M But let's wait un- 
til it gets here. When Geological and Biological studies have given us sciences, 
the questions which — as yet they have only raised, will be settled, and like ev- 
erything else that science settles, will be settled to the satisfaction of every 
body. Every science unanswerably demonstrates its propositions. Anything 
short of this is not science. 

As to how these GeologicaLand Biological studies will terminate — whether 
they will finally prove this proposition, or that — we think it is too soon to an- 
ticipate. Let students and scientists push their inquiries wherever they may 
lead, in order to discover the truth, whatever it may be. But let conclusions 
be scientifically proven, before they are accepted as truth, either by the students 
themselves, or the rest of the world. Whatever the ultimate conclusion may 
be. on special points, it never can be scientifically demonstrated that belief in 
God is unrational. For every step of a scientific argument demonstrates afresh, 
the presence in nature, at its origin, of a transcendent "mind," and of a pow- 
er commensurate with it. The more science we have, the more evidence we 
have of a great '•mind'' at the bottom of things. And when a great "mind ,, 
is proven to have existed, at the same time and place, there must have been a 
great "person.'' A mind without a person is incomprehensible, and unration- 
al. The mind that is revealed in one science is the same that is revealed in 
every other. For there is no conflict between the sciences, or any two of them. 
The laws of the highest heaven, so far as revealed by Astronomy, are in perfect 
harmony with every law of nature in this world- This shows that there is but 
one mind at the bottom of the universe, and one only person possessing that 
mind' "There is one God and none other' 1 — is a thoroughly rational, and even 
scientific proposition 

We now venture the statement, that the mind that is revealed in the sci- 
ences is the same that is revealed in the Bible. In the first place, as already 
stated, there is no conflict between any existing science and the Bible. There 
is, thus, a strong proof that the sciences and the Bible are the product of the 
same mind, and a strong presumption, that when Geology and Biology, be- 
come sciences they will not contradict it. Is it objected that the mind revealed 
through the sciences is a mind without character whereas the mind revealed in 
Bible is pre-eminently possessed of character? Does the fact that science does, 
or may. not reveal the character of the mind that lies beneath it, prove that 
that mind has no moral character? No, surely On the other hand, is there 
not a presumption amounting to certainty, that a mind which is so much gov- 
erned bylaw and reason in the realm of science, will be governed in the' same 
manner in its independent and Voluntary actions? Now as character is a se- 
ries of voluntary actions, it is surely rational, that instead of revealing the 
principles of moral actions through sciences, God would bring them to view in 
a system of principles adopted to voluntary actions. In other words. God 
would likely reveal his character through a. moral law, or system of moral laws 
or government.- --It would* therefore, be- unrational to look for these principles 



in the sciences, or to suppose, that because they .were not revealed there, they 
were not revealed anywhere. 

But if we are to look somewhere else— say to the Bible, or some other 
book, for these laws and principles, how can we tell whether the book alleged 
to contain them, really did originate from the one sole transcendent mind that 
pervades science. 

If there were no disagreement between this book and the sciences, this 
would be a presumption in favor of such book. If it had been written by 
nonscientific men, this presumption would be greatly strengthened. We have 
already shown that there is no conflict between the Bible and any known sci- 
ence. And it is well known that the Bible was written largely by men who 
were not scientists. 

But, says one, ought there not to be some evidence besides this, before a 
race of men should be expecte 1 to accept such a book as a genuine revelation- 
and carry its teachings into effect in their lives? It certainly is rational to 
suppose that God should look upon the matter in the same light, and should 
proceed to give special evidence in its favor. Now such evidence would have 
to be given in a scientific manner, or in some other way. But, if it is given 
scientifically, it would lose its force, as a special confirmation, and would be 
classed by men along with other scientific mxtt^rs. But, if this evidence were 
given in some other manner, it would constitute 

A MIRACLE. 

As we have already seen that it is rational to expect special evidence in 
the premises, and as special evidence cannot be given but by miracles, it is ra- 
tional to expect miracles, an 1 to believe in , them when they are given and 
properly attested. The Bible miracles fall in here naturally. They are out of 
the line of Science, and they are such as could have been performed only by 
that Go:l who had laid the foundations of the world in the laws of nature, and 
could arrest the operation of those laws, and substitute a miracle, for the time 
being, in place of their ordinary action. 

Such miracles were the Deluge, the Passage of the Red Sea. the humil- 
iation of Nebuchadnezzar, the swallowing and ejecting of Jonah, by a small 
throated fish, the Resurrection Df Christ, and so on through the whole list. 
And they were all connected with the teaching, or enforcement, or exemplifi- 
cation, or triumph of moral law. It is thought that the resurrection is the 
most unrational of all miracles. But, on the contrary, is it not the most ra- 
tional? Is it not rational, in the highest degree, that such a being as Christ 
should rise from the dead. Sin and imperfection alone are perishable. How 
rational, then, that a being so free from these, as was Christ, should not long 
be "holden of death. 11 The resurrection of all good persons is rational, for 
the good which they practiced is imperishable, and why not they also. The 
resurrection of the wicked is rational, too. For. right being imperishable, can 
never release the wicked, until they have been punished as they deserve. If 
they were not so punished before they died, it is rational to suppose they will be 
raised from the dead for this purpose. The miracles of the Bible then are 
thoroughly rational. 

ITS TEACHINGS. 

These are also in the highest degree rational. It is rational that a man 
should comply with the nmral requirements of the Bible. It is rational that 
Go 1 would provide a way to forgive those who had done wrong, and were anx- 
ious to recover themselves from that wrong. Anil so through the whole list of 



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Bible teaching 1 . But some one says, there are those immoralities, and cruelties 
mentioned in the Bible. Yes, but the immoralities belonged to men, and not 
to God. But why did God have them mentioned in the Bible? We might 
ask, why did men commit them? We might ask, why do men not only com- 
mit such things yet, but why do they — even some who do not believe the Bible 
—talk about such things, and why do they laugh and roar when they hear un- 
chaste stories. Why are they so intent on reading newspapers filled with such 
things. Why do they not object to the newspapers, because they contain such 
things ? We suspect that men are not right sincere when they denounce cer- 
tain things in the Bible, and take such a pleasure in them everywhere else. 
The Bible takes the world as it found it, and after revealing the state of things 
in it, goes to work to cure them, as far as can be done. But its denouncers 
stop short of applying the remedy. 

As to the wars that God caused to be waged, is it any worse for God to 
subdue his enemies, than for the United States to conquer those who rebel 
against its authority? We think it is in the memory of living men, that the 
United States government raised and equipped vast armies, and sent them to 
conquer, or exterminate, those who had recently been our fellow-citizens. And, 
what is more, our skeptical citizens, not only did not denounce the enterprise 
as criminal, but actually approved of it, and some of them went along to help 
conquer, or kill, their recent brethren. We have heard, however, that some of 
them resigned, before they had killed very many of their former associates. 

Thus it is clearly proven that science and the Bible are in harmony, and 
that they both originated with the "One, only, God 11 of the universe. 

. THE WORLD'S MISTAKE. 

We mean the mistake it has made, by substituting theological discussion, 
and metaphysical speculation, for scientific investigation. We fear that our 
Augustines and Platos have done us an irreparable injury. If the time and 
talent employed in the line of these men had been given to the scientific study 
of nature, where might our world not be, in knowledge and discovery? Also 
in mental development and power. The belief of the mind in the great 
truths of the word of God — such as the existence, power and glory of God, aud 
the rewards of the future state— coupled with the practice of the simple and 
beautiful precepts, found in that word — is the foundation that God himself has 
laid, for an endless and unlimited development of the powers of the mind, 
and of an endless succession of discoveries in the realm of nature, or science. 
The future world alone, can retrieve the mistakes of this one, and realize that 
glory and happiness, which a true religion, joined with a true science are de- 
signed to produce. 



Part Ninth. 

RELIGION AND AMUSEMENTS. 

These should go hand in hand. The church is designed to lay the homage 
of the world at the feet of its Maker. Worship is the exercise of the highest 
and noblest faculties of the mind, and the practice of it has an enlarging and 
elevating effect on all the other powers. But then there are 

OTHER POWERS. 

And these must be exercised also. There are the strictly intellectual facul- 
ties, which must be cultivated, by the study of the word of God and Science. 



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The practical powers are to be train ed by every day grappling with the affairs 
of life. Then tjiere are the faculties that demand exercise at a time when the 
foregoing should be relaxed. Here the various amusements of life come in, 
such as "chit chat,' 1 mirthful, or witty, conversation, games, parties, concerts, 
theaters and shows. 

If it be objected that there are evils connected with some of these, we re- 
ply that if our pamphlet is true, there are also evils in some churches, and es- 
pecially in the Adventist church. There are none of these things that are evil 
in themselves. If the whole mass of our population would unite in worship, 
at.the feet of the great Creator, on suitable occasions, and on other occasions, 
unite freely in all these amusements, what a different world we should have. 
We would not have the church afflicted with that "I am holier than thou" 
spirit, nor would small, or even large, preachers be denouncing "stars 1 1 much 
brighter, ani often better than themselves, nor would these "stars" evade the 
church paople in disgust. When the menagerie or circus comes around how 
much better for both preacher and people to attend, than to have matters as 
they are ? 

Is it said that these things need reforming? Please tell us how they can 
be reformed, if not by bringing about just such a state of things as we have 
described. In this way the reformation would be mutual. The church would 
reform the theater, and the show, and the theater and show would reform the 
church. 

Games and social plays should be engaged in by all— if for no other pur- 
pose, that the children -and youth may be rendered happy in their own homes. 
With such a state of things in regard to amusements, how long would it take 
for every "improper 11 place and thing to disappear? T^hey would soon vanish. 
And a general and unspeakable happiness would take the place of the divis- 
ions and miseries, that now afflict society. How long, Lord, how long does 
our poor world intend to mutilate and murder itself? A pure worship, a true 
science, and universal amusements, are—taken together — a happy world, and 
a world upon whom the smiles of God will rest, while eternity will witness and 
record its mighty growth. 

We are aware that our views on this subject will appear radical, and even 
revolutionary, to many. But we think a revolution in these matters, is just 
what the world needs. The effort to transplant these amusements, from their 
proper place, into the church, can only end in the ruin of the church. Not be- 
cause the amusements are wrong, but because everything should be kept in its 
own place. The mission of the church is the highest on earth. That mission 
is to lay the homage of a grateful and adoring world at the feet of its Creator. 
And, to this end the church should have a great and eloquent ministry. But 
when the church goes into the business of making amusements. She has 
abandoned the "throne, 11 and resigned her scepter over the souls of men. 



Part Tenth. 

RELIGION ANI) COMPULSION. 

God tolerates the 7 savages, the Brahmins, the Bu4hista,the Mohammedans, 
the Catholics and the Pfotestants, lie tolerates the pagans, the heathen, and 
the rest of the world. But the world does not tolerate. Cain did not toler- 
ate Abel. Nebucaadneawor would not tolerate any who did not worship his 



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.., ma „e " Antiochus did not tolerate the Jews. The B f»™. did ^* t **^ 
ate the Christians, neither did the Roman Cathohes. And the Protestant 
word now proposes to follow in their wake, and cease to tolerate those who 
° Tl ppn Snndav It is proposed to "compel" a universal observance 
onh" day P Th"s iT^c essfol "will result in another extinction of mind, and 
^ ^achievements, and in the full restoration of the Dark Ag s if 
time should continue a few centuries. Tins work m encourage A, that popes, 
prelates, priests, and apostate preachers, may again get control of the world, 
and rule it to gratify their lust of power, and their other lusts. 

Part Eleyehth. 

CHRISTIANITY AND OTHER RELIGIONS. 
It is well known that many of the best principles of Christianity are also 
found in the Asiatic religions. It has generally ^"^^'XmZ* 
ers in Christianity, that those religions had derived these P™^*?"^ 
Bible either directly, or indirectly. We think this is a serious mistake. Our 
SS*« where those principles are found, have preserve^ them 
from the origin of the race, and that they are en itled to great «^tfor hav 
ing done so Compare their course with that of those who have had what they 
believe to be a "revealed" religion, and how do the latter stand Whj .the 
fact is the Jews who were the first to receive a revelation, apostatized from it, 
Id he Called Christian world have done about as badly. A large propo, 
tion of the teachings contained in the Bible are east away, by both Jew and 
Christian, and, in their place the errors of the heathen are held to. Yet he 
Christian boasts of his superiority to the heathen. We tear the so called 
heathen have the better of him in the matter. 

Part Twelfth. 

THE LOUD CRY REJECTED. 
The Loud Cry has been rejected, by G. I. Butler and his confreres^ About 
three years a*o, we began writing up the subject, for the Review. Our first 
S™ ab ief sketehof the history of God's people, from Eden down to 
Re 18 In our second article, we described Satan's conquest * the ™rld, 
and how it is now mustered for the great conflict to arise when the work of 
Rev IS begins. In one or two other articles, we presented the Law ot God 
which is to be the "bone of contention" in that conflict. J*r ^ £ g 
point ordered the Review to print no more ot our articles although he pro 
noun ed them the "best that had ever appeared in the Review." Being hu 
out of the Review, wa published our book entitled, "Sunday, etc To grat.o 
mnler. the Gen. Con. of !886 refused te allow us to advertise the book m h 
Review, and sell it among our people. We say the Gen. Con We » 
small part of that body, for there were only a few votes oast In » e.en ce to 
that book, it is perfectly proper to say, that it contains ^ CTm^ 
Loud Cry. and that, if Butler had written it he would have thought the 
achievement of his life, while he would have been "auded to he **£*» 
worshippers, and the Gen. Con. would have given both him, and the book, 
ereat "send oft'.'' 



Our next experience was in Mo. Jones wrote us to come to Kingsville and 
attend the quarterly meeting in July, 1887, We went, and, at his request, 
spoke on Rev. 18. He pronounced the discourse evidently the correct way of 
handling the subject, and said it was the "best address he had ever heard on 
the fall of Babylon." 

Next, we mention our experience in K. C. We asked Shireman for the 
privilege of addressing the church, one Sabbath. We spoke on Rev. 18, and 
bad a most excellent social meeting after the discourse. We requested that a 
vote of the church be taken as to whether, or not, we could have the privilege, 
for a few Sabbaths, to take up that chapter and open it out fully. But Shire- 
man refused to take the vote of the church, and said they would see to it at some 
•'future time." That time has not yet arrived. 

In the month of April, 1888, we went to Battle Creek, humiliated ourself 
in the very dust to Butler, to make a last appeal to him to do justice in the 
matter. Bui he refused to even converse, or pray with us. We offered him the 
manuscript of "The Fall of Babylon," as it is in the first part of this pamphlet, 
and he refused to read it. We afterwards sent it to him through the mail. 
Whether he read it, we know not. But whether he did, or did not, he is 
equally guilty of ignoring and rejecting it. The Testimonies that describe the 
fall of many of the present leaders, say their fall was because "they did not 
keep peace with the light."— Test. 31, p. 70. There was no light to come but 
that of the Loud Cry, when this was written. It can be no light but that of 
the Loud Cry, that is referred to. Butler has rejected this. So has Jones. And 
they will cause nearly the whole denomination to reject it. Mrs. White told 
Butler, in the Testimony to him that we have elsewhere quoted, that he would, 
in some great crisis of the work, probably, pursue a course that would prove 
"disastrous to the cause, and fatal to his own soul." This Testimony is now 
fulfilled. The cause is nearly ruined, as will be soon made manifest, and 
Butler is a doomed man. 



Part Thirteenth. 

FINAL CONCLUSION. 

We have, at last, arrived at the conclusion of this pamphlet. A few re- 
marks, on a few more topics, are proper. 

ELDER JAMES WHITE. 

This noble man fell i*t his post, crushed beneath a load of burdens that 
Butler had a full share in throwing upon him. He used to say that Butler and 
Canright gave him more trouble than all the rest of the preachers." Canright 
is gone. He went out like a man. Butler will go out like a dog. The mem- 
ory of Elder White is sacred to every Adventist. He laid the foundations of 
the work of God like a master workman. He watched the structure rise with 
an honorable pride, and trembled only when he contemplated its fate, when it 
should fall into incompetent hands. His work is done. He "fought the good 
fight," he "kept the faith. '' "Henceforth, there is laid up for him a crown of 
righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge will give him at that day."' 
"Peace to his ashes." 

"Asleep in .Jesus, soon to rise, 
When the last trump shall rend the skies." 



MRS. ELLEN G. WHITE. 

Faithful woman. She has done a good work. "She hath excelled all the 
daughters of Zion.' 1 Her commission will be returned to the hands that gave 
it, to receive, in exchange, a crown that will never fade. To her it will be said, 
'•Well done, thou good and faithful servant." 

If any should look to her to speak- in regard to the present "crisis, 1 we 
think they will look in vain. Has she not spoken pf it freely in her books,. and 
in the Review ? ! If we cannot depend upon her written language, how could we 
upon what she might say? We are willing, however, to have her speak. We 
have been, urging Butler and Jones to appeal to her, in reference to our charges 
against them. We still urge them to. We have no acquaintance with her, 
never having seen her, in our life. 

THE LITTLE COMPANY. 

To the. little company of faithful brethren and sisters, we say, do not be 
alarmed.when waves of opposition rise "tumultuous and high 1 ' about you. 
You are sure of victory. The music, so sweet and thrilling, described in the 
chapter on the "Shaking,' '' as given in this pamphlet, will be made by you, 
when you have. obtained the "victory," and realize that the church is to be 
renovated indeed, and become a "glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, 
or any such thing. 1 ' ■ ■■ . 

"No more shall foes unclean invade, 
Or fill thy hallowed walls with dread." 
Soldiers of Christ— arise, 

And put your armor on- 
Strong in the strength which God supplies, 

Through his eternal son. 
Put all the armor, on. 

Like valiant soldiers stand . 
Let all your loins be girt with truth, 

Waiting your Lord's command. 
O, watch, and fight and pray. 
The battle ne'er give o'er. 
Renew it boldly, every day. 
And help divine implore. 

This pamphlet reunites the severed "cable 1 ' spoken of, by Mrs. White, in 
a former quotation. It restores to the ship of Zion the lost "chart and compass," 
and points the drifting bark back to the North Star. It lays hold of the helm, 
with a firm hand, to turn her again into her heavenward course. 
On Time's tempestuous ocean wide, 

A gallant ship set sail. 
And out into the raging deep, 

She stood before the gale . 
Long was to be her voyage— the time, 

Six thousand years almost, 
'Ere she would make the highland heights, 

Along the heavenly coast. 
Oft' tempests have assailed her round, 

And stormy winds rose high. 
And dark have been the mountain waves, 

That bore her to the sky. 
Long, long, she has been out and now 

She nears her haven home. 
A beacon light hangs o'er her bow, 

And bids her thither come. 



— v-54 

ADIEU. 

We shall be harshly judged, and roughly handled, on account of the con- 
tents of this book. But there is not a word in it that has been written, either 
in anger or malice. We have dealt out only such rebukes as the case appeared 
to us to imperatively demand. We are not seeking for office either. There is 
not an office in the denomination that we will ever accept. We shall find 
something to do, in the renovated church, without submitting to the trammels 
and restraints of a church, or conference, office. 

We had supposed that we were writing a book for the perusal of Advent- 
ists exclusively. But we now discover that it is also meant for the "rest of 
mankind." Whoever reads it, will find the truth. The condition of the re- 
ligious world— including Adventists— is truly stated. At the same time, the 
foundations and character of the great work to be done, soon, in fulfillment of 
the first part of Rev. 18, are brought to view, as we suppose. And last, but 
not least, Butler is held up to the scorn of a world before which he has "pos- 
ing" as an object of worship. While Jones, and a "large majority" of the 
preachers and people of the Adventist church, are shown to be as unsanctified 
a herd of cattle as were ever "corraled." As we have shown, there are "clean" 
cattle among them, but they are to be pitied. 

If any Missouri Adventist should see Jones, would he not have the kindness, 
to ask him to "please read" "this book to the church." If some one should 
see Butler, the Great, will he not be kind enough to "let him hear" what has 
transpired, and request him not to be "perplexed," for the "chickens are only 
coming home to roost." Tell him not to get "misanthropic," and go about 
trying to kill somebody. We advised him, years ago, to quit killing men, and 
go to killing cats. In this last employment, he would find use for all his mus- 
cular power — (we have understood that cats are hard to kill. It might re- 
quire a big man to kill even a little cat.) This calling would also, be suited to 
his mental and moral faculties, and to his refined tastes, as well. Good Bye, 
Big Beater. We expect to call again, after you have returned this call of ours. 
Call on us soon. 



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